Angad Pratap is an Indian Air Force officer and astronaut. In 2024, he made headlines when he was selected as a crew member of India’s first manned spaceflight programme, the Gaganyanyan mission.
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Dwivedi Angad Pratap Maitrey was born on Saturday, July 17, 1982, in Allahabad (now Prayagraj), Uttar Pradesh (41 years; as of 2023). His zodiac sign is Cancer. He did his Masters from IISc, Bangalore. In 2003, Angad Pratap collapsed from the National Defense Academy (NDA). In 2024, while undergoing astronaut training at ISRO, Angad Pratap entered the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to pursue a master’s degree.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′7″
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
Not much is known about his parents and siblings.
wife and children
His wife is a former Indian Air Force officer.
Profession
indian air force
He was inducted into the Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter fleet on December 18, 2004. He became wing commander in December 2017 and was subsequently promoted to group captain. He is also a flight instructor and test pilot with 2,000 hours of flying time. He has flown many different types of aircraft such as Su-30MKI, MiG-21, MiG-29, Jaguar, Hawk, Dornier and An-32.
Photos taken by Angad Pratap while at the National Defense Academy (NDA)
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)
In 2018, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) shortlisted 30 experienced pilots for the Gaganyan mission. Scheduled to launch in 2025, the Gaganyaan mission is India’s first manned space mission and aims to send four astronauts into low-Earth orbit for three days before landing safely in the Indian Ocean. After a challenging selection process, by mid-2019, only 12 pilots remained from the original 30 astronaut candidates. Finally, four astronauts – Group Captain Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair, Angad Pratap, Ajit Krishnan and Wing Commander Shubhanshu Shukla – were selected for the Gaganyaan mission. The crew’s initial space training is conducted at the Institute of Aerospace Medicine (IAM), Bengaluru. Subsequently, they were sent to Russia’s Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center to receive advanced space training.
After 13 months of training, they returned to India. They underwent further evaluation and training at the Manned Space Flight Center in Bengaluru. Their space training ends in February 2024. On February 27, 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented astronaut wings to the crew of the Gaganyan mission.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi awarded the prestigious astronaut wings to Captain Angad Pratap at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Center in Thiruvananthapuram on February 27, 2024
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