Gaganyaan & Bharatiya Antariksh Station

India's human-spaceflight effort has two linked goals: put its own astronauts, the Gaganyatris, into orbit aboard an Indian rocket, and then assemble the Bharatiya Antariksh Station, a five-module national space station. By mid-2026 the crewed launch has slipped past its early targets, but the scaffolding is visibly moving: an expanded, better-funded programme, a first uncrewed test flight in final qualification, and India's first astronaut already flown to the International Space Station.