PM announces four astronauts for Gaganyaan mission
Online Desk
Group Captains Prashanth Balakrishnan Nair, Angad Prathap, Ajit Krishnan and Wing Commander Shubanshu Shukla have been selected as astronaut-designates for the Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme.
Their names were revealed during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) in Thiruvananthapuram.
The astronaut-designates have been giving extensive training in Russia and various centres of ISRO, for the scheduled launch next year.
Modi said that the country will be a global commercial hub for space operations in the next 10 years.