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Jahnavi Dangeti  

Jahnavi became the youngest foreign Analog Astronaut and the first Indian at the Analog Astronaut Training Centre (AATC) in Kraków, Poland, in 2022. 

• Jahnavi Dangeti, the first Indian to complete NASA’s International Air & Space Program, has contributed to asteroid discovery through NASA’s IASC and received accolades like ISRO’s Young Achiever Award and NASA’s Space Apps Challenge People’s Choice Award.  
• She will begin astronaut training in 2026 for the 2029 Titan Space Mission, which will orbit Earth twice in five hours, offering nearly three hours of zero gravity for scientific research. 

  Preparing Through MCQ   

Jahnavi Dangeti has been selected as an astronaut candidate for which organisation’s 2029 space mission?

(1) NASA
(2) ISRO 
(3) SpaceX 
(4) Titan Space Industries 

Answer(4) Titan Space Industries