Women will be part of India’s inaugural manned mission into space.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is offering the chance for women to be a part of the historic mission, scheduled for 2014. They could be among the first two-member crew that ISRO sends up into space.
The astronauts will cruise for a week in an orbit 400km above the Earth before landing into the Bay of Bengal.
But it will not be easy, the ISRO warns.
There will be a long-drawn procedure to pick the best and a rigorous training schedule to help survive gruelling conditions in space.
"The process will take more than three years. We will start with about 100 and bring it down to a few. We will keep it open for women," Dr T K Alex, director of the ISRO Satellite Centre, told the Deccan Chronicle.
ISRO has partnership Roskosmos, the Russian federal space agency, for help in selection and training of the crew. The entire process, however, will be conducted at the upcoming Astronaut Training Centre near Bengaluru.
The journey into space on board a two-seat capsule is scheduled for 2014. The capsule will be designed to cruise in space, 400km from Earth, for a week.
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