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8:22am EDT: Time of reckoning for Shukla to touch space
Shukla, a Lucknow-born Indian Air Force (IAF) test pilot, is poised to become the first Indian astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS).
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Jeffin T. Kaleekal - Thu, 05, Jun 2025
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(from left) Astronauts Tibor Kapu, Shubhanshu Shukla, Peggy Whitson and Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski. / ISS National Laboratory
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, a part of the Axiom Mission 4 to the International Space Station, is scheduled to launch off on June 10 at 8:22 am EDT.
Operating in collaboration with ISRO and NASA, Axiom Mission 4 will lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew will travel to the orbiting laboratory on a new SpaceX Dragon spacecraft after launching on the Falcon 9 rocket. The targeted docking time is approximately 12:30 pm, June 11.
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NASA will stream live coverage of launch and arrival activities on NASA+.
ISRO astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla will serve as the pilot for the mission. Peggy Whitson, former NASA astronaut and director of human spaceflight at Axiom Space, will command the commercial mission. The two mission specialists would be ESA (European Space Agency) project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski of Poland and Tibor Kapu of Hungary.
As part of ISRO and NASA’s collaboration, Axiom Mission 4 would fulfil commitments by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Trump to send the first ISRO astronaut to the space station. The agencies are conducting five joint science investigations and two in-orbit STEM demonstrations, building on their shared vision to advance scientific knowledge and space exploration.
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