"I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small" by Neil Armstrong. Space is endless, so people have lots of questions about space. I am an astronaut from the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). ISRO was the first space program in Asia to successfully reach the Mars orbit. But we are not stopping there, we have another tremendously important mission to accomplish. The mission will be sending our rover, Lumos 724, to Gliese 832c, the third closest habitable planet to Earth. Why did we choose Gliese 832c for mission?

 

  We announced our special mission, the Lumos 724 / Gliese 832c mission, to look for possible signs of life and take samples. Gliese 832c is located in the Grus constellation, and it is 16 light-years away from Earth. Additionally, the climate of Gliese 832c is similar to Earth, and is approximately 5.2 times larger than Earth. Our primary scientific mission is to find samples from Gliese 832c. As an astronaut, a key goal of this mission is to make sure that rover is safe when it flies to Gliese 832c, and to avoid problems with the rover landing.

 

  The furthermost exhilarating news for a lot of people from the ISRO announcement is the launch date. The final launch date is October 19th 9PM. We have set our launch date at this time, because at that exact time the constellation Grus will be most visible to Earth. We are launching Lumos 724 from India. Not a single person launched a rover or rocket to Gliese 832c; therefore, there is merely any information about it. The sensors that will be contained in Lumos 724 are light, temperature, crash, humidity, and PIR, since our goal is to find evidence of life.

 

  We will face a lot of challenges that we are going to face when we are executing our special mission. We need to make sure that when we get to Gliese 832c we will have enough energy to explore the planet and accomplish our goal.  If the rover stop at the dark side of Gliese 832c , where is no light, then there is no solutions to move, because the rover is moving by the solar panel. Therefore, we will also need to make sure that when we get to Gliese 832c, the sensors will work all the time.

 

  ISRO's new mission is to send the rover Lumos 724 to Gliese 832c for looking for evidence of life. There are few challenges that we have to overcome, but we are all determined to make our mission successful. The space is endless and we are just a fraction of it, ready to know more about it.