Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla is set to create history by becoming the first Indian ever to set foot on the International Space Station (ISS). On Wednesday, Group Captain Shukla set off on the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission that he’s piloting. Led by former Nasa veteran Peggy Whitson, Ax-4 includes Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski from Poland and Tibor Kapu from...
Axiom Space Axiom-4 lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Jubilant Indians have been celebrating the successful launch of the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission which has taken off with a multi-country crew, including an Indian astronaut. Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who’s piloting the mission, has become only the second Indian to travel to space....
America’s oldest serving astronaut Dan Pettit has returned to Earth on his 70th birthday. The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Pettit and his Russian crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner made a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan’s steppe at 06:20 local time (01:20 GMT) on Sunday. They spent 220 days on board the International Space Station (ISS),...