Shubhanshu Shukla, a Group Captain and the first Indian astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS), is set to return to Earth today. This marks the successful completion of Axiom Space’s Axe-4 mission.
Shukla, along with three fellow astronauts Peggy Whitson (USA), Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski (Poland) and Tibor Kapu (Hungary), is expected to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off California at 3:01 PM IST (4:31 AM CT) today. The crew boarded SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft “Grace” at 2 PM IST on Monday (July 14), undocking from the ISS’s Harmony module at 4:45 PM IST.
