The four astronauts who will go to low-Earth orbit as part of the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Gaganyaan mission the country’s first crewed space mission were named by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday. The Prime Minister made the announcement while visiting the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
Angad Prathap, Ajit Krishnan, Shubanshu Shukla, and Group Captain Prashanth Balakrishnan Nair have been chosen to be the astronauts on India’s first crewed space mission. They have great expertise as test pilots and are all wing commanders or group captains in the Indian Air Force (IAF). This means they are already trained to react fast if something goes wrong.
The space agency’s astronaut training center in Bengaluru has been the training ground for the four astronauts. The astronauts were chosen from the Institute of Aerospace Medicine, part of the IAF. In the end, just three will fly into space as part of the Gaganyaan project.
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