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41 years on, an Indian astronaut set to script history
Orissa POST
|June 11, 2025
Lucknow-born Shukla, who goes by the call sign 'Shuks', is part of an ISRO-NASA supported commercial spaceflight by Axiom Space which is expected to lift off for a 14-day sojourn to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida Wednesday evening
Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla stands on the cusp of history as he prepares to set off on a space odyssey, marking India’s return to space flight 41 years after his idol Rakesh Sharma orbited the earth for eight days as part of Soviet Union’s Interkosmos programme.
Lucknow-born Shukla, who goes by the call sign 'Shuks', is part of an ISRO-NASA supported commercial spaceflight by Axiom Space which is expected to lift off for a 14-day sojourn to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida Wednesday evening.
A Group Captain in the Indian Air Force, Shukla was selected to be part of India’s astronaut corps in 2019 along with fellow officers Prasanth Balkrishnan Nair, Angad Pratap and Ajit Krishnan for the Gaganyaan mission which is likely to be launched in 2027.
This story is from the June 11, 2025 edition of Orissa POST.
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