NASA's Axiom-4 mission takes off successfully: Shubhanshu Shukla makes history for India | Watch video
Posted on: Jun 25, 2025 12:22 IST | Posted by: Livemint
With the successful set in motion of NASA, SpaceX and ISRO's articulate Axiom-4 commercial message foreign mission on June 25, cosmonaut Shubhanshu Shukla has made history as first Indian to visit the International Space Station (ISS).
Delayed multiple times in May and earlier in June, the Ax-4 mission lifted off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at 12:01 pm IST towards the ISS, according to a PTI report.
Lucknow-born IAF pilot Shubhanshu Shukla is the mission pilot for the Ax-4, with former NASA astronaut and American Peggy Whitson serving as Mission Commander. Other crew members are Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski of Poland, and Tibor Kapu of Hungary.
The launch was tracked by audiences in the India, the US, Poland, and Hungary (nationalities of the multi-country crew members). Cheers rung out at Shukla's City Montessori School in Lucknow, where his parents were among the audience, the report added.
Shukla became the first astronaut to travel to the International Space Station, a journey that comes 41 years after Rakesh Sharma’s eight days in orbit as part of the then Soviet Union's Salyut-7 space station in 1984.
"Greetings from India.. Have a fun time guys," Sharma said in a video message.
The targeted docking time is approximately 4.30 pm IST on Thursday, June 26, NASA said in a statement.
(With inputs from PTI)
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