Human Space Flight Centre (HSFC): To be established in Karnataka
Part of: GS Prelims and GS Mains –III- Space Science & Technology
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India’s world-class facility for training astronauts will come up at Challakere, a shrubby, arid oilseeds town in Karnataka. will be the single-stop consolidating infrastructure and activities related to space travellers.
It will be a self-contained facility there so that in future, whatever training and activities India is now doing in Russia for the Gaganyaan crew can all be done here
About Gaganyaan
Gaganyaan is the human space flight programme under which 3 Indian astronauts will go into space by 2022.This will be done by using its own capabilities. A GSLV-Mk III launch vehicle will lift them to their orbit.
If successful, India would become the fourth nation to conduct a human space flight programme after USSR/Russia, USA and China.
