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| Russian space agency Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin meets National Security Advisor Ajit Doval in Moscow on August 21, 2019 |
Four Indians will be trained at Russia’s Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Centre; French space agency CNES would train Indian space medicine personnel for Gaganyaan.
India and Russia are negotiating the supply of space suits, crew
seats and windows for astronauts who will be part of Gaganyaan, India’s first
human space mission set for 2022, according to a release issued by Russia’s state-owned
Roscosmos.
Four Indians will be trained
at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Centre as per a contract signed on June 27
between the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Russian space agency
Glavkosmos, part of Roscosmos.
The two sides also discussed
crew rescue system, aerodynamic tests of the GSLV MkIII rocket that will carry
the astronauts, some of which may be signed by the end of August, the release
dated August 21 said. Satellite navigation and engine technology were also
discussed.
The announcement was made in connection with the meeting
of National Security Adviser Ajit Doval with Roscosmos’s Director-General
Dmitry Rogozin in Moscow on August 21.
Glavkosmos will help ISRO to
select, test, train and qualify Indian astronauts and involve the Yuri Gagarin
centre and the state-run Institute of Medical and Biological Problems.
Space doctors
In a separate development
during the Prime Minister’s current visit to France, French space agency CNES
said on August 23 that its agencies would train Indian space medicine personnel
for Gaganyaan.
France has offered exchanges
and training at its MEDES space clinic and CADMOS (Centre for the Development
of Microgravity Applications and Space operation.)
The training will cover
astronauts’ life support systems, health monitoring, medicine, radiation
protection, protection from space debris and personal hygiene systems, CNES
president Jean-Yves Le Gall had said here last September.
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