Four Indian Airforce pilots start training for spaceflight in Russia
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Four Indian Air Force (IAF) pilots have started training for the country's maiden manned mission Gaganyaan around the earth's orbit in 2022 at the Gagarin Research and test cosmonaut training centre in Russia's Moscow. It is a year-long training that includes biomedical, physical practices, study of the Soyuz manned spaceship (module) and weightlessness mode aboard the special Ilyushin-76 MDK aircraft.