Thiruvananthapuram: A Malayali is the head of the Gaganyaan mission, which India is waiting for with pride. Prashant B Nair, a native of Palakkad Nenmara, is a Malayali participating in the mission. He is also a ‘Sukhoi’ fighter pilot and is a Group Captain in the Air Force. Prashanth Narayanan is the son of Palakkad Nenmara Koolangad Pramila and Valampil Balakrishnan.
There are 4 people including a Malayali in the Gaganyaan space travel team. Angat Pratap, Ajith Krishnan and Subhanshu Shukla are the other three members of the group. All four people have been selected from the fighter pilots of the Air Force.
The Gaganyaan mission will be implemented in 2025. The mission is to bring astronauts into an orbit at a distance of 400 km for three days and return them to Earth. Before this, GX will carry out a test mission to carry a robotic woman named Vyomamitra into space in June 2024. After this, the mission with astronauts will be carried out after two more test launches.
