Lucknow-born Shukla was included in ISRO’s astronaut selection process in 2019, following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 2018 announcement that an Indian would soon go to space. In January 2025, the ...

HOUSTON—SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule Grace executed a successful autonomous splashdown into the Pacific Ocean off the San Diego coast early July 15, bringing an end to Ax-4, Axiom Space’s fourth ...

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian astronaut to visit the ISS, has returned home after an 18-day mission. His ...

Shukla’s mission began with a launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on July 1, as part of the privately operated Axiom ...

About 41 years after Rakesh Sharma's flight in 1984, India sent an astronaut into space -- Shubhanshu Shukla.Shukla, who ...

The Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission completed its separation from the International Space Station (ISS) at 4:45 pm (IST) on Monday.

A private spaceflight featuring the first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary came to a close ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma welcomed Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla back to Earth after his successful Axiom ...

It was Axiom's fourth mission to the space station, part of NASA's effort to open up space to more businesses and people.

It was the fourth private astronaut mission funded by Houston-based Axiom Space and the second commanded by veteran astronaut ...