Group Captains Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair, Angad Prathap, Ajith Krishnan and Wing Commander Shubanshu Shukla have been designated as the astronauts of India’s manned mission to space Gaganyaan, scheduled for next year.
They were presented before the nation and “winged” by Prime Minister
N Valarmathi, the unsung heroine of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is no more. Though she remained away from the media glare, Valarmathi was famous among space-faring nations across the world which used to monitor the launch of ISRO space missions from the Satish Dhawan Space