Russia will not only train Indian astronauts for the country’s maiden human spaceflight program or Gaganyaan mission but will also help provide life support system to the Indian space crew and heating mechanism for the spacecraft.

Russian space corporation Roscosmos subsidiary Glavkosmos signed a contract with ISRO’s human space flight centre (HSFC) last week “to review a project to assess the possibility of using Russian flight equipment in life support systems and providing thermal regime for the manned spacecraft Gaganyaan”, a Roscosmos release said.

Dmitry Loskutov, director general of Glavkosmos, and ISRO’s human space flight centre head Unnikrishnan Nair

Dmitry Loskutov, director general of Glavkosmos, and HSFC head Unnikrishnan Nair had signed the contract for the two critical components for the Rs 10,000-crore Gaganyaan mission, which is scheduled to be launched by December 2021.

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