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Gaganyaan

India's first human spaceflight mission — Indian astronauts, on an Indian rocket, launched from Indian soil. "Gaganyaan" is Sanskrit for "sky craft".

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The mission in pictures

Why Gaganyaan matters

Only three nations — Russia, the United States and China — have launched humans to orbit on their own rockets. With Gaganyaan, India aims to become the fourth.

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Fully Indian

An ISRO-built crew capsule on the human-rated HLVM3 rocket, lifting off from Sriharikota — with Indian astronauts aboard.

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Safety First

A Crew Escape System, ten-parachute descent, and years of abort, airdrop and recovery tests before anyone flies.

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A Bigger Vision

Gaganyaan is step one toward the Bharatiya Antariksh Station by 2035 — and an Indian on the Moon by 2040.

India's space story, across three missions

Gaganyaan stands on the shoulders of two historic ISRO programmes — explore them on our sister sites.

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