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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday introduced to the world India's four "astronaut designates", elite fighter pilots of the Indian Air Force (IAF), who have been selected to be sent to space as part of India's first human-crewed spaceflight - the Gaganyaan mission.

The announcement was made during Modi's visit to the Indian Space Research Organisation's (Isro) Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) research institute in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

The four astronauts - IAF's group captain Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair, group captain Ajit Krishnan, group captain Angad Pratap and wing commander Shubhanshu Sh...