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India’s Gaganyaan mission trains astronauts for its first human spaceflight using zero-G flights on Airbus A330 and IL-76, preparing them for weightlessness, survival, and space mission challenges.

The Zero-G exercises are part of a broader training programme led by the Indian Space Research Organisation, aimed at ensuring astronauts are mission-ready.

Did you know that training for a spacewalk requires a 6.5 million gallon swimming pool, a team of divers, and a mock-up of the International Space Station? Astronauts have to train for a variety of different jobs they have to do in low Earth orbit.

HELSINKI — China’s astronaut corps has completed a near month-long underground cave training, conducted in part to prepare for future crewed lunar landing missions. A team of 28 astronauts participated in the training program which was held in a ...