The ambitious human space flight mission of Indian Space Reasearch Organization (ISRO) has been affected by the COVID crisis as the first unmanned flight as part of the mission has now been postponed to 2021. It was scheduled to happen later this year in December.
ISRO had announced two trial flights without crew for December 2020 and July 2021. However, it is not confirmed whether the overall timeline of sending Indians to space by 2022 will face any delay.
Senior officials had told PTI that there may be a slight up and down in the schedule and that it is premature to say anything as the team was working on the project.
India plans to put Indians in space on the 75th anniversary of India’s independence.
Four Indian Air Force pilots are currently undergoing training at Moscow for the mission.
Vyommitra, the humanoid will be flying in the first unmanned mission.