NASA and India Deepen Space Ties with Joint Missions and Astronaut Training

Blue Origin and Voyager Space also eye India as a potential partner for their space station projects, reflecting a global focus on lunar missions.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is touring the Indian Space Research Organisation's facilities this week as the U.S. and India gear up to launch their first joint mission, an Earth-observation satellite, in 2024.
Blue Origin and Voyager Space are reportedly looking at India as a potential partner for helping ferry crew to their planned space stations using the ISRO's planned Gaganyaan spacecraft.
India plans to land its first crewed mission on the moon by 2040, while NASA wants to put humans back on the moon within this decade.
NASA will train an Indian astronaut for a voyage to the International Space Station as early as next year.
The NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) satellite, a low-Earth orbit observatory system jointly developed by NASA and ISRO, is set to be launched from India in the first quarter of next year.