After a wait of four decades, Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla is set to travel to the International Space Station (ISS) next month as part of an Axiom-4 mission, Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh said on Friday, April 18.
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The crew of the Axiom Mission 4. From left to right: Tibor Kapu of Hungary, Indian Space Research Organisation astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and European Space Agency astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski of Poland Photo: nasa.gov/Website
The crew of the Axiom Mission 4. From left to right: Tibor Kapu of Hungary, Indian Space Research Organisation astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and European Space Agency astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski of Poland Photo: nasa.gov/Website
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