Gaganyaan, India’s first crewed orbital spacecraft that is designed to carry three people in 2025, successfully conducted its test flight on Saturday. For the last five years, the country’s top space scientists have been engrossed in laborious works that include extensive field and laboratory testing. All this work reached fruition on Saturday with the test flight result. And soon, more success is expected to follow.

The Gaganyaan project aims to send three crew members into space for three days, launching them into a 400km orbit above the Earth and bringing them back to land. The project will turn into a reality in 2025. India's baby steps into space exploration started with the launch of an American-made 'Nike-Apache' sounding rocket( also known as Argo B-13) from Thumba on November 21, 1963, at 6.25 pm. While India was just trotting their baby steps in space exploration, both the US and Russia were exploring ways to land humans on the moon. Very soon, both America and Russia succeeded in their moon landing mission with Apollo 11. 12 men walked on the lunar surface in total. And after twelve years in 1980, India put its satellite into orbit using its own launch vehicle.

And now, in 2023, India is mighty enough and is seated along with doyens in space explorations that include both the US and Russia. It is an incredible feat and one can only gape in amazement at how efficiently the country climbed all ladders of success, occasionally gliding past the repeated jibes from Western media. Along with that, the Indian space economy is booming! When an Indian reaches space, there are two benefits.

On the first note, India will prove its mettle by rising ranks in scientific and technological capabilities. The second benefit is that the global space economy will see better days and India will shine for certain. In Gaganyaan, the probe will be placed in an orbit 400 km above the Earth. Three people are designated for space travel. With the implementation of this, India will become the fourth country after the United States, Russia and China to put a man in space.

Globally, the space economy is worth 383 million US dollars. India's share is just eight million billion dollars. The global space economy will increase to one trillion dollars (1000 billion US dollars) in 2040. Economist 'Morgan Stanley' concluded that India's share will rise to 40 billion dollars by 2040.

However, if Ganganyaan mission succeeds, India’s share will rise to 100 billion dollars.