But the desire to become an astronaut couldn’t take root in me as India didn’t have an active human spaceflight programme. But another impressionable thing was an airshow where a fighter plane ...

Before India flies one or two astronauts to low Earth orbit for the first time — now no sooner than 2026 — it plans to test its technology through at least four uncrewed demonstrations.

Image Source : X/@AXIOM_SPACE ISRO astronaut and Indian Air Force officer Shubhanshu Shukla It is the first time ever for India that ISRO astronaut and Indian Air Force officer Shubhanshu Shukla ...

In 2019, Shukla underwent astronaut training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Russia. ISRO later chose him for the Gaganyaan mission, India's first human spaceflight program.