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The 2019 WACEM and academic college of emergency experts india position paper on developing the academic department of space medicine in India - The time has come! The Prime Minister of India in August 2019 announced that India will send astronauts into the space by 2022 in its indigenous spacecraft "Gaganyaan" and also that India will have its own Space Station by 2030.[[1]],[[2]] Ever since Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) built its first satellite Aryabhatta in 1975, ISRO has come a long way and has successfully sent Chandrayaan-1 and Mangalyaan to the Lunar and Mars orbits, respectively. Success of India's human mission in the space depends heavily on a legitimate SM research powered by an Academic Department of SM. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports that India's first moon mission Chandrayaan-1 was launched successfully on October 22, 2008 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SHAR) in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. It is stated that since its launch, the spaceship moved into the elliptical orbits around the Earth as its performance is being monitored. Chandrayaan-1 will take up a polar lunar orbit at 100 kilometer altitude, before releasing the Moon Impact Probe.