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After 4 decades, an Indian astronaut set for space travel
Financial Express Pune
|April 19, 2025
INDIAN ASTRONAUT SHUBHANSHU Shukla is set to travel to the International Space Station next month as part of an Axiom-4 mission, four decades after Rakesh Sharma's iconic 1984 spaceflight onboard Russia's Soyuz spacecraft, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Friday.
Singh made the remarks after reviewing the work of the Department of Space and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
"Group Captain Shukla's journey is more than just a flight — it's a signal that India is stepping boldly into a new era of space exploration," Singh said. ISRO chairman V Narayanan made a presentation on various upcoming space missions.
This story is from the April 19, 2025 edition of Financial Express Pune.
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