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Shubhanshu Shukla Set to Script History on June 8
Millennium Post Delhi
|New Delhi 02June2025
Shubhanshu Shukla is preparing to embark on his first journey to space aboard Axiom Space's fourth commercial mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
Scheduled for launch on June 8, the mission will lift off aboard SpaceX's Falcon-9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with liftoff expected no earlier than 6:41 pm IST.
Shukla, selected as the pilot for the Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), will become only the second Indian to fly into space, following Rakesh Sharma's 1984 flight on the Russian Soyuz mission.
Alongside Shukla, the Ax-4 crew includes Polish national Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski and Hungary's Tibor Kapu. This mission marks the first time astronauts from Poland and Hungary will travel to the ISS. The flight is also only the second government-supported human space-flight from either country in over 40 years.
This story is from the New Delhi 02June2025 edition of Millennium Post Delhi.
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