Union Minister Jitendra Singh congratulates ISRO on successful completion of IADT-02 test for GaganyaanISRO successfully conducted the second Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT-02) for the Gaganyaan mission, a crucial step towards India's first h...
10 Apr, 2026, 09.37 AM IST
From fighter pilots to face of Gaganyan: Astronaut designates for India's maiden human spaceflightAstronaut-designates Angad Pratap, Ajit Krishnan, Shubhanshu Shukla, and Prashanth Nair have become overnight heroes after being selected f...
13 May, 2025, 06.32 PM IST
Gaganyaan mission update: One ISRO astronaut to undertake space travel to ISS post-August, says Minister Jitendra SinghSpace Minister Jitendra Singh announced in Lok Sabha that an Indian astronaut named Gaganyaatri from ISRO will travel to the International ...
27 Jul, 2024, 01.43 PM IST
India's four astronaut-designates for Gaganyaan mission undergoing tight training scheduleIndia's four astronaut-designates for the Gaganyaan mission undergo a packed training schedule at ISRO's crew training facility. The traini...
28 Feb, 2024, 06.03 PM IST
PM Modi likely to reveal names of pilots for Gaganyaan on Tuesday; inaugurate space projects worth Rs 1800 crore in KeralaPrime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) to inspect India’s first human spaceflight mission 'Gaganyaan'....
27 Feb, 2024, 04.18 PM IST
Who are the four selected Gaganyaan astronauts? Here is all you should know about the four astronautsIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced four astronauts-designates from the Indian Air Force's Aircraft and Systems Testing Establis...
27 Feb, 2024, 04.17 PM IST
ISRO prefers woman fighter test pilots for its manned mission, possible in future, says SomanathISRO, the Indian space agency, is considering selecting women fighter test pilots or female scientists for its upcoming human space flight ...
22 Oct, 2023, 04.08 PM IST
Gaganyaan not one-off mission, government approved sustained human spaceflight programme: ISRO officialAddressing the 'Be Inspired: Festival of Ideas' event here, Imtiaz Ali Khan, director of ISRO's Directorate of Human Spaceflight Programme,...
15 Apr, 2023, 09.57 PM IST
ISRO conducts parachute tests for Gaganyaan missionThe first test simulated the clustered deployment of two pilot parachutes -- one parachute was subjected to a minimum angle with respect to...
07 Mar, 2023, 04.43 PM IST
ISRO conducts Rail Track Rocket Sled deployment tests of Gaganyaan Pilot, Apex Cover Separation parachutes"The first test simulated the clustered deployment of two pilot parachutes. One parachute was subjected to a minimum angle with respect to ...
07 Mar, 2023, 08.37 AM IST
US proposal to train Indian astronaut is not for Gaganyaan, India's first human space missionIn 1984, an IAF pilot Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian to fly into space on a Soviet Union's Soyuz T-11 spacecraft. The only Indian ci...
20 Feb, 2023, 03.14 PM IST
Mission Gaganyaan: Better safe than starryGaganyaan was announced by Narendra Modi on August 15, 2018. But no one at the time saw the Covid pandemic coming less than two years later...
18 May, 2022, 11.25 PM IST
First trial flight of Gaganyaan may face some delay due to lockdownBengaluru-headquartered ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) had earlier said it has planned two trial flights without crew ahead of G...
11 Jun, 2020, 02.40 PM IST
As part of Gaganyaan, first unmanned mission this December: ISROAddressing the inaugural session of a symposium on "Human Spaceflight and Exploration - Present Challenges and Future Trends," Sivan said t...
22 Jan, 2020, 04.11 PM IST
First phase of payload selection for Gaganyaan done: ISRO chairman K SivanIsro plans to send a humanoid in the first of the two unmanned missions to space later this year using its most powerful rocket - Geosynchr...
22 Jan, 2020, 01.43 PM IST
Seven IAF pilots sent to Russia for India's first manned mission to spaceGaganyaan is India's manned space mission which the ISRO aims to launch by December 2021. The project aims at sending the astronauts to a l...
15 Nov, 2019, 12.23 PM IST
Women astronauts unlikely to be on inaugural Gaganyaan flightShort-listed candidates will be sent to Russia for training after November.
28 Aug, 2019, 07.51 PM IST