June 26, 2025 5:01 PM
Axiom-4 docks with ISS; Shubhanshu Shukla becomes first ISRO astronaut aboard station
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla became the second Indian astronaut to reach space on Thursday, docking at the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft ‘Grace’ — 41 years after Rakesh Sharma’s historic flight. "Docking confirmed!" SpaceX said in a post on social media platform X. The private mission, organised by Axiom Space, reached the ISS at 6:30 am ET (4:00 pm IST), docking with the Harmony module after a 14-hour journey from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in F...