Dev Joshi, a 22-year-old actor from Gujarat, and Santhosh George Kulangara, a businessman from Kerala. Member of the state planning board, are prepared to follow in the footsteps of Rakesh Sharma. The first and only Indian to journey to space back in 1984.
The two may very well conquer the skies and even the Moon’s orbit before the space agency’s main project, the ambitious Gaganyaan human expedition to space, which the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is now training four Gaganauts or astronauts for.
Joshi, the star of the well-liked fantasy television series Baal Veer, will spend six days orbiting the Moon aboard. The Starship spacecraft made by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. George will be among the first space tourists as he has tickets to travel to space on Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic. Joshi is now more optimistic about putting this unsettled period to an end.
