Shubhanshu Shukla Axiom 4 NASA Launch: India's Historic Entry to ISS Begins

NASA's latest chapter in space exploration unfolded early Tuesday morning with the successful launch of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), marking a major milestone in global space collaboration. Among the crew aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is Shubhanshu Shukla, an astronaut representing ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation), making history as the first Indian astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS) under a NASA-ISRO partnership. source:nasa The launch occurred at 2:31 a.m. EDT on June 25 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The four-member crew rocketed into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, part of NASA’s ongoing partnership with commercial space companies, in this case, Axiom Space and SpaceX. Joining Shukla are former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, serving as mission commander, Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski from Poland representing the European Space Agency (ESA), and Tibor Kapu of Hungary. For both Poland and Hungary, this mission...