{"id":7447,"date":"2020-01-17T05:29:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T05:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=7447"},"modified":"2020-01-17T05:55:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T05:55:55","slug":"gaganyaan-space-astronauts-training-to-start-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/gaganyaan-space-astronauts-training-to-start-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaganyaan space astronauts training to start this month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cGaganyaan\u201d space astronauts will start their training this\nmonth, most likely in the third week of January. The training of the astronauts\nfor India&#8217;s first human space mission will take place in Russia.&nbsp; Four\nastronauts have been identified for the mission. The four astronauts,\nshortlisted for the mission, will receive training for 11 months.&nbsp; All the\nfour astronauts selected for the mission are men but their identity cannot be\nrevealed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current\nAffairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though the first Indian to go into space was Rakesh Sharma\nin 1984 but the spacecraft in which he went was not Indian.&nbsp; Therefore,\nGaganyaan will be the first &#8211; ever human space mission conceived and developed\nin India, as a distinct illustration of the Prime Minister\u2019s &#8220;Make in\nIndia&#8221; vision.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGaganyaan\u201d space astronauts will start their training this month, most likely in the third week of January. The training of the astronauts for India&#8217;s first human space mission will take place in Russia.&nbsp; Four astronauts have been identified for the mission. The four astronauts, shortlisted for the mission, will receive training for 11 months.&nbsp; All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[623,364],"class_list":["post-7447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-january-2020","tag-gaganyaan-mission","tag-indian-space-research-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7449,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447\/revisions\/7449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}