{"id":22411,"date":"2024-02-27T08:13:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T08:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/meet-four-astronauts-who-will-steer-indias-gaganyaan-mission-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-02-27T08:13:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T08:13:39","slug":"meet-four-astronauts-who-will-steer-indias-gaganyaan-mission-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/meet-four-astronauts-who-will-steer-indias-gaganyaan-mission-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet four astronauts who will steer India\u2019s Gaganyaan mission &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-518432\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-header post-tp-1-header\">\n<div class=\"single-featured\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix single-post-content\">\n<p><strong>New Delhi:<\/strong> Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on a visit to ISRO\u2019s Vikram Sarabhai Space Station on Tuesday, announced the names of four astronauts who have been chosen for India\u2019s historic Gaganyaan mission.<\/p>\n<p>The selected astronauts are currently going through intense training for country\u2019s first human space flight mission, slated for 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The four astronauts, selected for the Gaganyaan mission are Group Captain Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair, Group Captain Ajit Krishnan, Group Captain Angad Pratap and Wing Commander Shubhanshu Shukla.<\/p>\n<p>While announcing names of the four astronauts, PM Modi expressed happiness and said that they will bring new glory to nation\u2019s space exploration programs.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Gaganyaan would be India\u2019s first human space mission. All-out preparations are underway at ISRO for the project.<\/p>\n<p>Gagayaan would add another feat to India\u2019s successful space exploration programs. In previous display of space prowess, India became the only nation last year to make successful landing of Chandrayaan on the South Pole of the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>By 2035, ISRO plans to set up own \u2018Bharatiya Antariksha Station\u2019 and has also prepared a timeline to send first Indian to the Moon by 2040.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(IANS) <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;\n\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#13; &#13; &#13; New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on a visit to ISRO\u2019s Vikram Sarabhai Space Station on Tuesday, announced the names of four astronauts who have been chosen for India\u2019s historic Gaganyaan mission. The selected astronauts are currently going through intense training for country\u2019s first human space flight mission, slated for 2025. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22413,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411\/revisions\/22413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}