Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced the names of the four astronauts that will fly to low-Earth orbit as part of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Gaganyaan, which will be the first crewed Indian space mission. The PM made the announcement while visiting the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Group Captain Prashanth Balakrishnan Nair, Angad Prathap, Ajit Krishnan and Shubanshu Shukla have been selected to be the astronauts on India’s first crewed mission to space. They are all either wing commanders or group captains in the Indian Air Force (IAF)
