India reveals that it has returned lunar spacecraft to Earth orbit | India now credibly has the third most advanced deep-space program in the world.
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India reveals that it has returned lunar spacecraft to Earth orbit | India now credibly has the third most advanced deep-space program in the world.::India now credibly has the third most advanced deep-space program in the world.
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So we now have Cosmonauts, Astronauts, Taikonauts and ... Hindunauts?
I get you're joking but for real they haven't announced yet what they'll be called. Soon speculation came out that they would use either "vyomanauts" or "gaganauts" which would both translate to "sky... nauts" in Sanskrit
Oh no if they go with gaganauts...
That would be kind of an understatement, wouldn't it?
Why would India have the only name based on religion?
"Hindunauts" was simply the first name I came up with. Maybe that is because India is ruled by a nationalist-theocratic party. However, in the first place I just made a joke and will happily accept good proposals of better/secular names. What name do you propose?
I wish we'd just have an internationally standardized term for this...