Indian Air Force Officer Shubhanshu Shukla has been set to create history through the long-awaited Axiom-4 (AX-4) mission to the International Space Station (ISS) tomorrow, on 11 June.
According to a NASA declaration, Shubhanshu Shukla will drive the mission from the desk to the ISS on board a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on 11 June from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Shukla's birth city Luckknow is filled with posters who want the local boy lucky on his space emission, according to a Bloomberg report.
Why was the AX-4 mission delayed?
In a position on June 9, the Indian Space Reserch Organization (ISRO) said that the mission originally launched on 10 June (today) was launched until June 11 (Tommorow) due to unfavorable weather conditions.
“The launch of Axiom-4 Mission to International Space Station: Due to the weather conditions, the launch of Axiom-4 Mission for sending Indian Gaganyatri to International Space Station will be postponed from 10 June 2025 to 11 June 2025. The targeted time of the Launch is 5:30 am Ist on the chairman of the chairman of the chairman of the chairman of the chairman of the chairman of the chairman of the chairman of the chairman of the chairman of the chairman of the chair of the chair of the chair of the chair of the chair of the chair of the chair of the chair of the chair of the chair of the chair of 11 June 20, 2025555555555:” / Secretary Space Commission, “It wrote.
When and where to look at AX-4 launch live?
The AX-4 mission will be launched at 8 am et, which is for Indian viewers on 11 June 5.30 pm. Most live streams start at least two hours before the launch.
History in making: Shubhanshu Shukla to become the first Indian to visit ISS
He will have a distinction to be the first Indian in history to visit the ISS and the second Indian in space after the journey of Astronaut Rakesh Sharma in 1984 on board the Mission T-11 mission of the USSR.
Rakesh Sharma in particular became the first Indian to drive to space under the Soviet Interkosmos program.
Now, 41 years later, Shubhanshu Shukla will be part of a four-member crew consisting of Commander Peggy Whitson of the US, mission specialist Sławosz Uznańskiśniewski from Poland and mission specialist Tibor Kapu from Hungary. The team will spend 14 days at the ISS.
Mission 'Opening Act' for India's Space Ambitions
The BB report noted that this mission marks the 'opening act' in the space ambitions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for India – with plans including a room in 2027, a crew lunar mission by 2030, has set up India's own space station by 2035 and lands an Indian astronaut on the surface of the Moon.
Especially in 2023, Isro successfully landed a robot -like spacecraft near the South Pole of the Moon.
