22.5 hours and a splashdown: How Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla’s return journey to Earth will unfold

Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three other crew members of the Axiom-4 mission are set to begin their return journey on July 14. The Dragon spacecraft will follow a scheduled path to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere. Getting back to the spacecraft, which is docked to the space-facing side of the ISS’s Harmony module, is a complicated process that involves several checks and careful execution of set procedures

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