India teams up with France to prep for its first manned mission
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The new colonial movement: India has signed a cooperative deal with France to provide them help in preparing for its first manned mission in 2022, now dubbed Gaganyaan by India’s press.
Following the signing of agreements between the two parties on Thursday, the agencies “will be combining their expertise in the fields of space medicine, astronaut health monitoring, life support, radiation protection, space debris protection and personal hygiene systems.”
The announcement was made by CNES [France’s space agency] president Jean-Yves Le Gall during the inaugural of Bengaluru Space Expo-2018 where he was the chief guest. It is being organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry along with ISRO and Antrix, the agency’s commercial arm, from September 6 to 8.
The two countries will also work together on other space research.
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The new colonial movement: India has signed a cooperative deal with France to provide them help in preparing for its first manned mission in 2022, now dubbed Gaganyaan by India’s press.
Following the signing of agreements between the two parties on Thursday, the agencies “will be combining their expertise in the fields of space medicine, astronaut health monitoring, life support, radiation protection, space debris protection and personal hygiene systems.”
The announcement was made by CNES [France’s space agency] president Jean-Yves Le Gall during the inaugural of Bengaluru Space Expo-2018 where he was the chief guest. It is being organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry along with ISRO and Antrix, the agency’s commercial arm, from September 6 to 8.
The two countries will also work together on other space research.
This seems like a missed opportunity for the USA. However, NASA would probably gum up the works and our private industry is not quite ready to take on the roll.
“Gaganyaan” means “Skycraft” Here’s more info on the program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaganyaan
https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/gaganyaan-mission-in-a-first-india-to-send-humans-into-space-for-7-days-118082800470_1.html
https://www.dnaindia.com/science/report-first-look-how-spacecraft-gaganyaan-carrying-the-first-indian-astronaut-will-look-like-2655897
Col Beausabre: Interesting. I had simply assumed that Gagayaan was a play on Gagarin’s name.
Coincidentally, my reaction was to Gag and Yawn.