India’s crewed space program will fly this year, after missing 2022 and 2025 targets

SCIENCE A space station by 2035 is ISRO’s new mission India plans the first launch of its crewed space program this year and has expanded its orbital ambitions to include operating a space station by 2035.India’s crewed space program is called Gaganyaan and has already missed deadlines to fly in 2022 and 2025. The nation’s space research organization (ISRO) agency and government did not say anything about the future Gaganyaan schedule after last year’s deadline passed without a launch.That silence ended earlier this week, when ISRO Chairman Dr V. Narayanan used the occasion of India’s third annual National Space Day to reveal that testing of the rocket and crew module to be used by Gaganyaan missions is almost complete, and the first of three test missions will launch this year. REG AD The