Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla Tuesday said engineers at ISRO were comparing his experiences onboard the Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station with the planning for Gaganyaan, India’s maiden human spaceflight.

Shukla, who became the first Indian astronaut to travel to the International Space Station (ISS), said the formal training for the Gaganyaan mission would begin soon.

Four Indian astronauts have been selected and trained for the Gaganyaan mission which is expected to take place in 2027, when the home-built LVM-3 will place at least two of them in a low Earth orbit.

Shukla, the IAF pilot-turned-astronaut, said the engineers at ISRO were identifying the dissimilarities between the Gaganyaan mission and other human spaceflight to identify the gaps, if any.

“These mission

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