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Gaganyaan

Capsule · Human-rated

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
Gaganyaan

Overview

The spacecraft is being designed to carry three people, and a planned upgraded version will be equipped with rendezvous and docking capability. Gaganyaan is an Indian crewed orbital spacecraft intended to be the formative spacecraft of the Indian Human Spaceflight Programme. This Hindustan Aeronautics Limited manufactured crew module had its first uncrewed experimental flight on 18 December 2014 as part of a suborbital test flight of the GSLV Mark III rocket.