According to Indian Research Organisation (ISRO) Chief, K Sivan, organization is w planning to send an astronaut in its own rocket by December, 2021. While dressing eighth convocation of IIT, Bhubaneswar, Sivan said that lunar mission might t have been completely successful and plan to make a soft landing on lunar surface by Chandrayaan-2's 'Vikram' module did t go as per script but that it will t have any bearing with on ISRO's Gaganyaan. It is an Indian orbital craft that is designed on basis of Indian Human flight Programme. It is designed to carry three people and is expected to orbit earth at an altitude of 400 Kms.

ISRO's future plans

He also spoke about ISRO’s future missions and said that by December 2020, ISRO is expected to have its first unmanned mission of human plane. He furr ded that second target that ISRO is looking at right w is unmanned human plane which organization has been targetted for July, 2021.

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Gaganyaan mission is extremely important for India because it is expected to boost science and techlogy capability of country. Talking about invation, Sivan said that every time something is invated, it comes with its fair share of risks and potential failures.  He said that he does t need to tell anyone of number of times that Edison h failed while he was trying to invent light bulb. He furr ded that everyone is also aware of number of times that ISRO has failed in launch of new vehicles but also mentioned that se failures did t become obstacles and ISRO has been using m as learning opportunities. 

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Sivan also talked about various leers

Sivan went on to say that Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam once said that your dream or idea must t make you sleep. He also said that if students wanted to become like Dr. Kalam, y should follow his idea and mess he gave and t chase just his hairstyle.

Talking about Chandrayaan 2, he said that orbiter will give data for seven and half years and that all techlogies of ISRO's moon mission have proved accurate except for soft landing. He furr asked students if that was t eugh success alrey. 

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Sivan also said that students must take calculated risks and n go on to invate. He said that if chance is taken, re is chance of a significant achievement in life and also that calculated risks help save a person from problematic areas. He also mentioned that despite being considered poor by many, India is number one in world for sending remote sensing satellites. He concluded his speech by quoting Mahatama Gandhi and said that Gandhi said local problems need local solutions. 

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On a related te, Prof R V Raja Kumar, Director of IIT Bhubaneswar presided over convocation function 32 Ph.d, 105 M Tech, 67 M Sc and 152 B Tech students received ir degrees.