NEW DELHI: India commemorated Wednesday’s launch of the Axiom-4 mission, which carried a crew that included the country’s first astronaut in forty-one years, and launched to the International Space Station. The 14-day mission was launched Wednesday morning from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida by NASA, Elon Musk’s SpaceX, and American firm Axiom Space. The four-person team was sent into orbit by SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket.
Shubhanshu Shukla, an Indian Air Force pilot, is in charge of piloting the spacecraft through launch, orbital insertion, docking with the ISS, undocking, re-entry, and landing. Peggy Whitson, a former NASA astronaut, is in charge of the private voyage. Two other crew members are Tibor Kapu, a Hungarian mechanical engineer who will conduct space health tests, and Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski, an astronaut with the European Space Agency and the second Polish person in orbit, who will conduct science experiments in microgravity.
On social media, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wished Shukla and the other Axiom-4 astronauts “all the success.” “Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, an Indian astronaut, is en route to becoming the first Indian to visit the International Space Station,” Modi stated. “The desires, aspirations, and hopes of 1.4 billion Indians are carried by him.”
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