India has been looking forward to its human spaceflight mission Gaganyaan for a few years now, and it is a race against time for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to launch the first uncrewed mission in December amid disrupted hardware delivery schedules due to the coronavirus pandemic.
According to a report by news agency PTI, ISRO officials said that the first as well as the second wave of COVID-19 have impacted the Gaganyaan programme severely, considering the fact that the agency is procuring hardware elements for the mission from the industry.
Gaganyaan is a prestigious mission under which India would send astronauts to space on an indigenous launch vehicles and bring them back safely to Earth to demonstrate its capability to do so, and it would place India among a very elite group of countries as it would become the fourth country after USSR/Russia, US and china.
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