This story is from December 22, 2014

Isro crew module reaches Sriharikota

The unmanned space crew module of the Indian space Research organisation (Isro) recovered from Indira Point in Bay of Bengal reached Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota on Sunday evening after coast guard vessel Samudra Pahredar recovered and brought it to Ennore port here at 9.30am.
Isro crew module reaches Sriharikota
CHENNAI: The unmanned space crew module of the Indian space Research organisation (Isro) recovered from Indira Point in Bay of Bengal reached Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota on Sunday evening after coast guard vessel Samudra Pahredar recovered and brought it to Ennore port here at 9.30am.
The crew module which will be used to send astronauts into space in future was dispatched to Sriharikota under tight security.
ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan along with senior officials of the Indian Coast Guard were present at the port when the 17-member team of ISRO officials brought back the recovered module. Initial reports indicated that the module was intact without any significant external damage after its experimental flight.
" We will be carrying out further tests at Sriharikota for the next six days and it will be then shifted to Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thumba, Thiruvananthapuram later this week," said senior ISRO sources. The crew module was used as the payload for the GSLV Mark III rocket, the heaviest launch vehicle designed by the ISRO. The next stage of the crew module test is expected to be conducted in 2015 for assessing the efficiency of its ejection system enabling the crew to bail out of the module in case of any emergency.
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