Dangeti Jahnavi, a young woman from Palakollu in Andhra Pradesh’s West Godavari district, is set to go to space in 2029. She made history as the first Indian to successfully complete NASA’s prestigious International Air and Space Program. Jahnavi has been selected for a mission to Titan’s Orbital Port Space Station, a space project from the United States that is scheduled to launch in the next four years.

She earned her degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Lovely Professional University in Punjab, following her school education in her hometown of Palakollu. Her parents, Srinivas and Padmasri, are currently employed in Kuwait.

Jahnavi is actively involved in promoting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education and creating awareness about space. She has given talks for ISRO’s educational programs and spoken to students at top colleges like the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) across India.

She also takes part in space-related training activities such as analogue missions, deep-sea diving, and international conferences focused on space science and sustainable space travel. Jahnavi contributed to the International Astronomical Search Collaboration, where she helped discover a new asteroid using data from the Pan-STARRS telescope.

She also became the youngest foreign analogue astronaut and the first Indian selected for geology training by Space Iceland. With this, she has been honoured with several prestigious awards over time, including ISRO’s World Space Week Young Achiever Award and the People’s Choice Award at NASA’s Space Apps Challenge.