Jahnavi Dangeti

Some Lesser Known Facts About Jahnavi Dangeti

• Jahnavi Dangeti got interested in space by listening to her grandmother, Leela Ramanadham’s stories and decided to become an astronaut when she was only 11 years old.

  

• When she got to know that astronauts do scuba diving during their zero gravity training, she travelled 25 km daily on her bicycle to do scuba diving near her home.

• She later became the youngest advanced scuba diver in India. She was once stung by a jellyfish and had a close encounter with a lionfish.

  

• In 2021, she was the only Indian to undergo the International Air and Space Program (IASP) at NASA Launch Operations’ Kennedy Space Centre in Alabama, USA.

  

• She got a scholarship from a Mexican company to participate in the session. During the camp, she completed her lifelong dream of flying a Cessna 172.

  

• She later became the first Indian girl to participate in a 10-day student program of NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration).

• In July 2022, she met Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy to help her deal with financial challenges.

  

• She was the youngest participant in the Analogue Astronaut Training Centre (AATC) at Krakow, southern Poland, in 2022.

  

• In 2023, she published a scientific paper titled Robotics in Space: A Review.

  

• In June 2025, she was selected as an Astronaut Candidate (ASCAN) for the space mission of Titan Space Industries (TSI), a U.S.-based private agency engaged in space research.

• The mission includes Low Earth Orbit (LEO) twice, which takes around 5 hours each time. So, she will see sunrise and sunset twice and also experience zero gravity for 3 hours.

• She’ll be part of a major mission led by retired NASA astronaut Colonel William McArthur Jr., aimed at advancing scientific research and human spaceflight.

• Her 3-year training will start in 2026, which includes flight simulation, spacecraft procedures, survival training, medical and psychological evolutions.

  

• In 2025, she gave many TEDx lectures, including one at Sri Venkateshwara University College of Engineering.

  

• She is a polyglot and knows 5 languages – Hindi, English, Telugu, Spanish, and Arabic.

• She also likes to do yoga, meditation, and karate to maintain her fitness.