India has a long way to go for human space flight mission: former ISRO leader

HYDERABAD: India still has a long way to go before it can undertake a manned space flight mission, said the former president of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) , AS Kiran Kumar.

Earlier in the day, ISRO said to have conducted a major technological demonstration, the first of a series of tests to qualify a crew exhaust system. , a crucial technology for manned spaceflight.

Officials of the Bengaluru-based space agency said that the development of different technologies necessary for the realization of ambitious enterprise, including environmental control and survival systems and flight, was underway.

"It's one of the many things that need to be done, not the only one, it's a phased approach," Kiran Kumar told PTI during today's test. # 39; hui. "These are all preliminary activities".

The crew escape system was an emergency measure designed to quickly pull the crew module with astronauts at a safe distance from the launcher in the event of an accident. abandonment of launch, according to ISRO.

Kiran Kumar said, "We still have a long way to go to undertake the mission." Currently, we are conducting some key development activities in confined areas … regardless of the resources available. "

ISRO officials said that the government has not yet formally approved the space flight space mission that was on the drawing board of the space agency for a long time.

More than ten years ago, at a meeting convened by ISRO, the scientists highly appreciated the study undertaken on this mission and were unanimous in suggesting that it was time for the country to start this business.

Kiran Kumar said at the beginning of the year that an inhabited space flight was "not a high priority" and indicated that "resource constraints" were holding back the high-cost project.