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‘ISRO prefers woman fighter test pilots’

Updated on: 23 October,2023 07:28 AM IST  |  Thiruvananthapuram
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He also said ISRO would send a female humanoid - a robot that resembles a human - in its unmanned Gaganyaan spacecraft next year

‘ISRO prefers woman fighter test pilots’

ISRO would send a female humanoid says chief. Representation pic

ISRO prefers woman fighter test pilots or female scientists for its much-awaited human space flight programme Gaganyaan mission and it is possible to send them in the future, the space agency chief S Somanath said on Sunday.


He also said ISRO would send a female humanoid - a robot that resembles a human - in its unmanned Gaganyaan spacecraft next year. The ambitious mission aims to send humans into space on a Low Earth Orbit of 400 km for three days and bring them safely back to the Earth.


"No doubt about it...but we have to find out such possible [women] candidates in the future," Somanath told PTI over phone in response to a query. His statement came a day after the ISRO successfully launched its TV-D1 test vehicle ahead of the human space flight mission Gaganyaan.


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