Marking a landmark moment in India’s space history, Axiom Mission 4, with Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three other crew members, departed from the International Space Station (ISS) early on Monday and embarked on their journey to return to Earth. Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) today, wrapping up a historic 18-day mission that has stirred national pride.
If all goes as planned, the Dragon capsule will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere and land in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on Tuesday around 3:01 pm IST. According to the Axiom Space X handle, a live coverage of the splashdown will begin at 2 pm IST on the Axiom Space website.
Shukla, the first Indian to visit the ISS and only the second Indian in space after Rakesh Sharma, will return to Earth with the multinational Axiom-4 (Ax-4) crew aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft on Tuesday.
Dr Jitendra Singh, Union minister of science and technology, also posted on X, saying the spacecraft’s arrival is planned at 3 pm and that “these timings have a margin window of approximately 1 hour”.
Axiom Mission 4: About the mission
Launched at NASA Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on June 25, the Axiom-4 mission involved the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft belonging to the Elon Musk company. The capsule was piloted by Shubhanshu Shukla, who successfully docked at the ISS on June 26, and that marked the entry of the team into the world of groundbreaking scientific studies.
The mission is described as a key accomplishment in the Indian space aspirations, with Shukla, of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), being the first Indian to fly to the ISS on a commercial spaceflight. Even within the mission, on June 28, he held a conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, pointing to the symbolic significance of Indian participation in human spaceflight expanding.
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