List of Indian astronauts

For foreign astronauts of Indian origin, see List of astronauts of Indian origin.

The following is a list of Indian astronauts, also known formally as Gaganyatri^[1][2] (from the Sanskrit word gagana meaning "sky" or, "celestial" and yatri meaning "traveller") and informally as Vyomanauts (from the Sanskrit word vyoman meaning "sky" or "space") for indigenous missions by ISRO.

Crew of first manned spaceflight mission in Gaganyaan program.

ISRO astronauts

Further information: Indian Human Spaceflight Programme and Gaganyaan

1st Gaganyatri Group

Name	Photograph	Born	Age at the time of the first space mission	Time in Space	Missions	Notes
Shubhanshu Shukla		10 October 1985	39 years 8 months 15 days	20 days, 2 hours and 59 minutes	Axiom Mission 4 (25 June 2025[3]) Gaganyaan-4 (Q1 2027 (Planned)[4])	Second Indian in Space.[5] Longest-staying Indian astronaut in space.[6] First ISRO selected astronaut in space. First Indian to participate in the space program as a mission pilot. First Indian in ISS. First Indian astronaut in space under a commercial spaceflight program.[7][8] First Indian to travel to space in the 21st century.[9]
Prasanth Nair		26 August 1976		None	TBA	Backup of Shukla on Axiom Mission 4.[10]
Ajit Krishnan		19 April 1982		None	TBA	[10]
Angad Pratap		17 July 1982		None	TBA	[10][11]

Former Indian Astronauts/Cosmonauts

Flown

Name	Photograph	Born	Age at the time of the first space mission	Time in Space	Missions	Notes
Rakesh Sharma		13 January 1949	35 years 2 months 21 days	7 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes	Soyuz T-11/10 (3 April 1984)	First Indian in space.[12][13]

Backup

Name	Photograph	Born	Time in Space	Missions	Notes
Ravish Malhotra		25 December 1943	N/A	Soyuz T-11/10 (3 April 1984)	Backup astronaut.[14]

Space Tourists

Suborbital

#	Name	Photograph	Born	Time in Space	Mission(s) (dates)	Notes
1	Gopichand Thotakura		1993	9 minutes, 53 seconds	Blue Origin NS-25 (May 19, 2024)[15]	First Indian to take a suborbital flight to space.[16]

See also

• Astronaut
• Other astronaut corps:
  • Canadian Astronaut Corps
  • European Astronaut Corps
  • NASA Astronaut Corps (United States)
  • JAXA Astronaut Corps (Japan)
  • Roscosmos Cosmonaut Corps (Russia)
  • People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (China)
• List of Asian astronauts
• List of astronauts by selection
• Human spaceflight
• History of spaceflight
• List of Indian scientists
• List of Indian mathematicians