SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 19 September 2025, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 1 of 100

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Which of the following is NOT a benefit of the Gaganyaan mission?

(a)Increased global collaborations in space science
(b)Advancement in space-related R&D and technology
(c)Boost to India's human spaceflight capability
(d)Reduction in Earth's temperature

Answer

Why

Correct — D. Gaganyaan is ISRO's human spaceflight programme. Its stated aim is to launch a crew of three to a 400 km orbit for a three-day mission and bring them back safely to Earth.

Lowering Earth's temperature is a climate goal, pursued by cutting greenhouse-gas emissions. A crewed orbital flight does nothing of the kind, so it is the one listed item that is not a benefit → option (d).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Increased global collaborations in space science — ISRO describes the programme as drawing on cutting-edge technologies available with international agencies, so global collaboration is part of it, not the odd one out.
(b)
Advancement in space-related R&D and technology — ISRO lists the new technology areas the programme opens up, among them life support systems, human factors engineering and bioastronautics. Advancing R&D is a real benefit.
(c)
Boost to India's human spaceflight capability — Human spaceflight capability is the programme's core objective: a crewed launch, three days in orbit and a safe return. It is the headline benefit.

Concept

Gaganyaan is India's human spaceflight programme. ISRO frames its objective as a demonstration: a crew of three, a 400 km orbit, a three-day mission and a safe return to Earth.

The launcher is the Human Rated LVM3 (HLVM3). Building to human-rating standards drives work in life support, crew training and crew safety, which is where the programme's technology benefits come from.

In this NOT question three options are space outcomes and one, Earth's temperature, is a climate outcome. The odd field is the giveaway.

Key facts

Gaganyaan aims to send a crew of three to a 400 km orbit for a three-day mission and bring them back safely (ISRO).
Its launch vehicle is the Human Rated LVM3, abbreviated HLVM3.
ISRO lists life support systems, human factors engineering and bioastronautics among the technology areas the programme develops.

Study next

Gaganyaan's crew module, service module and crew escape systemLVM3 and what human-rating a launch vehicle involvesBharatiya Antariksh Station, India's planned space station

Common traps

Treating international collaboration as irrelevant because Gaganyaan is an Indian mission: ISRO's own description draws on technologies from international agencies.
Reading NOT as 'not the main benefit' and striking out a genuine but secondary benefit such as collaboration.

Gaganyaan is also tested by its numbers and names: 17 Sep 2025, 12:30, GA Q.11 asks the planned orbit (400 km), and 16 Sep 2025, 09:00, GA Q.13 asks what HLVM3 stands for (Human LVM3).

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