The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is setting up a Human Space Flight Centre to carry out the country’s maiden manned mission into space by 2021.
The new organisation will be based out of Bengaluru.
It will be in charge of all human-related space activities at the ISRO and operate on a new management structure with senior scientist Unnikrishnan Nair as its director.
ISRO chairman K. Sivan further named R. Hutton as the project director for Gaganyaan. Hutton currently helms the PSLV light vehicle programme.