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Gaganyaan: India names astronauts for maiden space flight
The Gaganyaan mission aims to send astronauts to an orbit of 400km and bring them back after three days.
The astronaut-designates received their "wings" on Tuesday India has unveiled four Air Force pilots who have been shortlisted to travel on the country's maiden space flight scheduled for next year. Gaganyaan has generated a lot of interest in India, although it's coming decades after Soviet Union and the US started making trips to the low Earth orbit. Just weeks later, scientists launched Aditya-L1, India's first observation mission to the Sun which is now in orbit, keeping an eye on our solar system's most important and volatile star.
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