ISRO Sets Up Human Space Flight Centre for Gaganyaan Mission in Bengaluru

Gearing up for its maiden manned space mission 'Gaganyaan', ISRO unveiled its Human Space Flight Centre Wednesday.

The space agency is gearing up for the human spaceflight programme by 2021-end that is likely to include a woman astronaut.

Gaganyaan is the "highest priority" for ISRO in 2019, according to the space agency, and the plan is to have the first unmanned mission in December 2020 and second for July 2021.