First Indian Space Tourist

 Santhosh George Kulangara 

              Santhosh George Kulangara (born 25 December 1971) is the founder and Chief Explorer of Safari T.V, The first and only exploration channel in India. He started his career in Television media at a very young age of 17 and recognized well with production of a number of tele films, Tele serials and documentaries for Doordarshan, Thiruvananthapuram. His most important contribution to the visual media is ‘Sancharam’ - the first visual travelogue in Malayalam. It has crossed 1000 episodes. The traveler who goes to cities and villages of different nations captures in his camera the remnants of history, today’s life, uniqueness of nature, traditions, culture and everything. The Direction and Camera of Sancharam are by Santhosh George Kulangara. He has already completed his journey to more than 100 countries in Asian, African, Australian, American, European continents and Antarctica during last 19 years. After 16 years since he had started travelling, ‘Sancharam’ has turned out to be an exclusive, round-the-clock exploration channel Safari. The channel offers a 24 hours live streaming. The program Sanchariyude Diarykurippukal in Safari is most notable, Santhosh himself shares his different experiences from journeys in this program.

           Santhosh George Kulangara is participating as first space tourist from India in the space voyage to be conducted by the London-based Virgin Galactic. Santhosh George’s space journey will be held very soon in the spacecraft named Spaceship - II. He will be taking off to space in the spaceship from Spaceport America in New Mexico USA. Spaceship-II is designed for flight of six passengers and two pilots at a time. The debutant voyagers in Spaceship-II include the famous scientist Stephen Hawking also.