Aditya Pandya Becomes India’s Youngest Male Analog Astronaut
In February 2026, Aditya Pandya, a 17-year-old Indian student and young space technologist from Gujarat, became India’s youngest male analog astronaut following the completion of a lunar habitat simulation mission organized by AAKA Space Studio, a space research and simulation organization.
In February 2026, Aditya Pandya, a 17-year-old Indian student and young space technologist from Gujarat, became India’s youngest male analog astronaut following the completion of a lunar habitat simulation mission organized by AAKA Space Studio, a space research and simulation organization.
- The mission took place from February 1 to 8, 2026, on the white plains of Dholavira, Kutch, Gujarat.
About Lunar-Habitat Mission:
Overview: It was a lunar habitat analogue mission, using a container-based habitat engineered to simulate Moon-like physical and operational conditions.
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- Analogue missions are used to prepare for real space missions by replicating isolation, confinement, and operational autonomy that astronauts must handle in space.
Crew: The mission comprises a four-member analog astronaut crew who lived inside a container-based lunar analog habitat.
About AAKA Space Studio: It works on planetary analog environments and registered as Space Tutor of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) focused on planetary analogue environments.
About Aditya Pandya: Aditya Pandya led the crew for hardware, Internet of Things (IoT) systems, and habitat intelligence systems.
- He contributed technically to areas such as internal and external environmental sensors, astronaut biometric systems, embedded habitat health and safety hardware, centralized mission control telemetry, and modular components developed through Three Dimension (3D) printing and prototyping.
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