ISRO Chairman confirms India lacks crewed spaceflight capabilities for 2025 ISS repatriation.

ISRO Chairman S. Somanath confirmed that India's space agency currently lacks the capabilities for crewed spaceflight, and thus, cannot aid the repatriation of Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams and her colleague Barry Wilmore from the International Space Station (ISS) in February 2025. NASA has chosen SpaceX's Crew Dragon for their return, making ISRO's involvement unnecessary.

August 25, 2024
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