India's national space agency (ISRO) and its Gaganyaan crewed-orbit program, plus a paid ride on a private US space mission called Axiom-4.
It's India's push to launch its own astronauts into orbit, aiming for a flight in the first half of 2027 on its HLVM3 rocket.
An Indian astronaut, Shubhanshu Shukla, trained for the International Space Station by flying on the commercial Axiom-4 mission, so a rising space nation is plugging into space infrastructure that private companies already built.
It shows how newer space powers get up to speed fast by mixing their own rockets with established private space services rather than building everything alone.