New Delhi, May 7 -- India's first crewed space flight, Gaganyaan, will lift off in early 2027, kicking off a new era of space exploration, launching two to three astronauts to an orbit of 400km for a three-day mission, with a second flight scheduled soon thereafter, Indian Space Research Organisation chief V Narayanan said. The crewed spaceflights, codenamed H1 and H2, will be preceded by three uncrewed missions (G1, G2 and G3), the first to be launched in the last quarter of 2025, he said. "Gaganyaan is catalysing India's emergence as a self-reliant space power," he said. P7...