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Bengaluru Will Soon Turn Space Hub As ISRO Decides To Train Future Astronauts In The IT City
Astronauts train in the Neutral Buoyancy Facility at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. (NASA)
India's silicon city will soon churn out astronauts for India's proposed space missions as a training centre for astronauts is all set to come up near Bengaluru International airport.
This development comes just days after the Independence day announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi about India's crewed space missions set to be launched by 2022. As reported by the Times of India, this astronaut training facility which has been in the pipeline for 10 years, will come up on Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO's) land which is about 10 kilometre from the airport in Devanahalli.
The facility will be equipped to train astronauts for surviving in a zero-gravity environment and will prepare personnel for manned missions in recovery-and-rescue operations, the study of radiation environment and long journeys across space through water simulation.
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