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Only the second Indian to travel to space, and the first from the country to visit the International Space Station (ISS), Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla returned to Earth on Tuesday, after a 20-day landmark space journey that prepares the ground for India’s own human spaceflight mission, Gaganyaan. Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla of the Indian Air Force (IAF), one of the astronauts designated under the Gaganyaan program, is heading to space tomorrow, June 11, after bad weather delayed today’s launch. As part of the Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), Shukla ’s journey ... Shukla , serving as mission pilot, was joined by mission commander Peggy Whitson of the United States, and mission specialists Sawosz Uznanski of Poland and Tibor Kapu of Hungary. Notably, this mission also marks the first time astronauts from Poland and Hungary have reached the ISS. Shubhanshu Shukla and other astronauts greet those aboard the ISS. (Credit: X/SpaceX) Shubhanshu Shukla Axiom-4 Launch: Shubhanshu Shukla was designated as astronaut number 634 by Commander Peggy Whitson in their first remarks aboard the International Space Station. Shukla expressed confidence about the experiments and other events planned for the next 14 days aboard the space laboratory. Earlier, the Axiom-4 Mission crew floated into the ISS through a hatch from the Crew Dragon Spacecraft ...
