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Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 sets off for the moon this month – a further step in the country's 60-year-old space odyssey.

Padmakumar E. S. has taken charge as Director, ISRO Inertial Systems Unit (IISU) at Vattiyoorkavu, Thiruvananthapuram. He succeeds Sam Dayala Dev.

The years to come will show the value of this action, with missions already being planned between ISRO and NASA.

Names are something that India’s third moon exploration mission, slated for a mid-July launch as things stand, will share with the 2019 Chandrayaan-2 lunar adventure.

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While Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden signed an agreement on June 22 to conceive a joint mission sending an Indian astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS) by 2024, it is unclear if this will involve astronauts currently being trained for the indigenous Gaganyaan mission.

ISRO Chairman said that self-reliance doesn’t mean that we do everything ourselves while delivering an address in the Department of Space programme on Self-reliance in Space Technology

Earlier, a senior White House official said that NASA and the ISRO were developing a strategic framework for human spaceflight cooperation this year.

When asked about the major challenges of this mission, the ISRO chief said safety of crew members was the most important aspect in the Gaganyaan project.