India in Space, and India's Ancient Bond with the Cosmos
In 2025, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla became the first Indian aboard the International Space Station, flying on NASA's Axiom-4 mission, while the NASA-ISRO NISAR satellite began mapping the Earth from orbit. These are proud milestones of science and engineering, and they deserve to be celebrated as exactly that.
A very old relationship with the sky
They also echo something far older. Long before telescopes, India's rishis mapped the heavens with extraordinary care: the 27 nakshatras, the movements of the grahas, the solstices and equinoxes. The Vedanga Jyotisha, Aryabhata's calculations and the Surya Siddhanta reveal a civilisation that watched the sky with both reverence and rigour.
Two ways of looking up
To be clear, a rocket launch is not an astrological event, and Jyotish makes no claim over spacecraft. But the spirit is continuous: a people who have always looked upward with wonder. Modern India studies the cosmos with instruments; traditional India read it for meaning. Both are part of the same long gaze.
The same sky the rishis charted by eye, India now reaches by rocket.
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