Axiom 4: PM Modi interacts with Subhanshu Shukla, who is aboard ISS, pic goes viral
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, 28 June 2025 interacted with Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who is aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
The PMO India in a post on X said: “PM @narendramodi interacted with Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who is aboard the International Space Station.”
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla of Indian Air Force created history as he travelled to International Space Station (ISS) aboard the private Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission. He is piloting the SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, with a team of astronauts from India, Poland, US and Hungry. The take-off happened through the Falcon-9 rocket from the NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on June 25.
Four decades after Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma, Shubhanshu Shukla becomes the second Indian to go to space. He, along with the crew, will be living and working on the ISS for 14 days.
The Ax-4 mission is a joint collaboration between NASA, ISRO, and Axiom Space. Shukla and his team will be conducting over 60 experiments, led by several Indian researches, along with the team of NASA, further highlighting India’s global expansion in space, science and technology.
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