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Gaganyaan: Chosen 4 are Nair, Krishnan, Pratap & Shukla
The Daily Guardian
|February 28, 2024
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Tuesday the names of the four astronauts who will be part of India’s first human space flight programme, Gaganyaan, slated to be launched in 2024-25.
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The four chosen Indian Air Force pilots are Group Captain Prashanth Nair, Group Captain Ajit Krishnan, Group Captain Angad Pratap, and Wing Commander Shubhanshu Shukla. The four astronauts were trained at Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a visit to Kerala, reviewed the progress of Gaganyaan mission and bestowed ‘astronaut wings’ to the astronaut-designates at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre. The Gaganyaan mission is India’s first human space flight program for which extensive preparations are ous ISRO centres.
"India's success in the space underway at varistor is sowing the seeds of scientific temperament in the country's young generation," PM Modi said in his address at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre.
This story is from the February 28, 2024 edition of The Daily Guardian.
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