♦ Aditya Pandya (17 years) has become India’s youngest male analog astronaut. He successfully completed a lunar-habitat-inspired mission conducted by AAKA Space Studio in Dholavira, Kutch (Gujarat). The mission involved a four-member analog astronaut crew, who lived together inside a container-based lunar analog habitat for the full mission duration. 

♦ The lunar analog habitat was engineered to replicate the physical and operational constraints of a Moon-like environment. It incorporated a digital twin framework, enabling real-time synchronisation between the physical habitat and mission control systems, allowing continuous monitoring and post-mission analysis of habitat and crew parameters.

♦ Aditya, as a core technical team member, had been involved in building and developing the mission's technology stack over the six months leading up to the mission.