ISRO & SPACE CA IN APRIL 2026

 * India Russia Signed MoU On Lab To Fast Track Drone Satellite Talent 

 * Indian Astronomers DISCOVERD A Forbidden Alien Planet Exoplanet - TOI 5205

*Indian SPACE Research Organisation (ISRO) Launched Mission MITRA For Safety Of Human Spaceflight Mission Crew 

* ISRO Successfully Accomplished The 2nd Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT - 02) For Gaganyaan At Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota 

ARTEMIS II ( MOON MISSION) - 

* NASA LAUNCHED THE ARTEMIS II, FIRST CREWED MISSION TO THE MOON AFTER 57 YEARS ( APPOLLO 11 IN 1969) 

* IT HAS LIFTED FROM KENNEDY SPACE CENTRE, FLORIDA 

* THIS 10 DAYS MISSION KICKED ON 2ND APRIL 2026 

* ASTRONAUT REID WISEMAN, VICTOR GLOVER, CHRISTINA KOCH, AND CANADIAN ASTRONAUT HEREMY HANSEN 

* CHRISTINA KOCH BECAME THE FIRST FEMALE TO MOON MISSION 

ABOUT ASTRONAUT - 

REID WISEMAN - 

* Former Chief Of Astronaut Office 

* Spent 165 Days Aboard In The ISS In 2014 

JEREMY HANSEN - 

* Canadian Astronaut And Former CF-18 Fighter Pilot SELECTED By Canadian Space Agency in 2009;

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VICTOR  GLOVER - 

*NASA Astronaut, US NAVY, AVIATOR 

 * Piloted Space X Crew - 1 To ISS 

* Served As Flight Engineer On Expedition 64/65 

* First Black Astronaut To Travel Beyond Low Earth Orbit 

CHRISTINA KOCH - 

* NASA ASTRONAUT 

* SHE SPENT 328 CONSECUTIVE DAYS IN INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 

* 328 days LONGEST SPENT BY A WOMAN IN ISS 

* FIRST FEMALE ASTRONAUT TO FLY ON TO MOON 

* NASA ARTEMIS II Set A New Record Reaching The Farthest Distance Humans Have Travelled From Earth ( Crossed 252,752 miles During Lunar Flyby Surpassing Apollo 13 Mission Record) 

* ARTEMIS II Astronaut Name Lunar Crater Named After NASA Astronaut Reid WISEMAN 's Late Wife - Carroll Taylor WISEMAN 

* The ARTEMIS II Crew Has Been Landed On Earth  ( 10 Days Completed) ( Completed 690,000 Miles) 

* Bengaluru Based New Space Has Successfully Tested Its Sheshnag -150 Loitering Munition.

* ISRO's Space Application Centre And The Ashoka Trust For Research In Ecology And The Environment ( ATREE) Have Signed A MoU To Strengthen Collaboration In Research, Data Knowledge Exchange 

*  51 Years Completed The India's First Own Satellite ARYABHATTA 

* Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Has Inaugurated A State Of The Art Satellite Navigation INS SYSTEM ( G3INS) Testing Facility At Korwa Divison 

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* Telengana Chief Minister Shri Revanth Reddy Along With Industries MINISTER D Sridhar Babu, Flagged Off The Flight Hardware Of Skyroot Aerospace VIKRAM -1 ( India's First Privately Developed ORBITAL Rocket) 

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