In a major boost after the successful Chandrayaan-3 mission, ISRO has revealed their plan to send a humanoid robot called ‘Vyommitra’ to space on a Gaganyaan trial flight before the spacecraft takes astronauts. According to an interview with Union Minister Jitendra Singh with a private news agency, Vyommitra, the humanoid robot in female attire will take the flight to space in the Gaganyaan-2.

Reaching the space, Vyommitra will perform various tasks which are expected to be performed by the astronauts in the third phase of the mission or the Gaganyaan-3 and hence will assess how humans would act when in space.

ISRO Gaganyaan Mission will be three phase:

The Gaganyaan mission will be a three phased mission for which the trials are expected to begin in the month of October. The first phase is the testing which is scheduled in October. In the second phase the humanoid robot ‘Vyommitra’ is expected to take the space flight and finally, in the third phase it will involve launching a crew of three members to an orbit of 400 km for a three-day mission and bringing them back safely to earth, the ISRO's website says. The crew will then return by landing on the Indian Sea waters. The final manned trip is anticipated to launch in 2024 or 2025.  

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This is in tune with ISRO’s long term development plan which has the objective to demonstrate the indigenous capability to undertake the human space flight mission to the Low Earth Orbit (LEO). If the Gaganyaan mission is successful then the next step will be to focus towards achieving capability for a sustained human presence in Space. In addition to this, ISRO has many missions on its to-do list including Aditya L-1, Mangalyaan-2 and Shukrayaan which includes sending a space mission to the Sun and Venus.

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