While there have been other astronauts of Indian origin, they were not citizens of India. Rakesh Sharma was born in Patiala, Punjab, on January 13, 1949. He participated in the Soviet Interkosmos ...

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla will become the second Indian to travel to space, four decades after Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma's historic feat in 1984.

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, set to become the second Indian to go to space after Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma's journey on board the Soyuz T-11 in April 1984, will take on the role of pilot on ...

ISRO will launch two big missions in the next two years. Union Minister of State Jitendra Singh said that the Gaganyaan ...

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla Shukla says Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma -- the first Indian to travel to space --has been ...

Shubhanshu Shukla, a Group Captain in the Indian Air Force, is set to become the first Indian astronaut to travel to the International Space Station (ISS). He will serve as a pilot in the Axiom-4 ...

Indian astronaut Gp Capt Shubhanshu Shukla, set to be the pilot for Axiom Space’s Ax-4 mission in 2025, shares insights from his training. He emphasizes its distributed and complex nature and ...

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is set to make history by becoming the first Indian astronaut to journey to the International ...

Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, designated as the pilot for Axiom Mission 4, is set to take yoga to space. Shukla also ...

In 2019, Shukla underwent astronaut training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Russia. He was later selected by ISRO for Gaganyaan mission—the country's first human spaceflight program.

Shukla's participation in the Axiom-4 mission is a precursor to his role in India's human spaceflight mission, Gaganyaan. His ...

Indian Air Force Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla will become the second Indian to go to space after Rakesh Sharma. He was selected for the upcoming Indo-US mission to the International Space Station ...