India's programme to fly its own astronauts to low Earth orbit, approved in December 2018 and later widened to include the Bharatiya Antariksh Station.
Gaganyaan aims to show that India can send a crew of three to low Earth orbit and bring them back safely. The Cabinet approval set missions lasting from one orbit up to seven days.
A human-rated version of LVM3, called HLVM3, will carry the crew module. A crew escape system can pull the crew module away from the rocket if something goes wrong during the climb through the atmosphere.
The Human Space Flight Centre (HSFC) in Bengaluru leads the programme. It was inaugurated on 30 January 2019 and handles mission planning, crew survival systems, and crew selection and training.
ISRO Gaganyatri Shubhanshu Shukla flew to the International Space Station on the Axiom-4 mission. He launched on 25 June 2025 and returned after an 18-day mission, during which he ran seven Indian microgravity experiments.
Under the revised plan, eight missions are to be completed by December 2028, ending with the launch of the first station module, BAS-1. The government's longer-term aims are an operational Bharatiya Antariksh Station by 2035 and an Indian crewed Moon landing by 2040. ISRO's Gaganyaan mission list shows TV-D1 as the only flight so far. Launch date and live status: Gaganyaan tracker. Every test and decision, step by step: Gaganyaan mission timeline.