As part of the mission, Shubhanshu Shukla becomes the second Indian to go to space after Rakesh Sharma and will also soon become the first Indian on the International Space Station.
Shukla will pilot the Ax4 Mission to International Space Station on 10 June, and will be the first Indian to visit & conduct research on the Space Station in its 25 years of existence.
Shukla, Nair & 2 others are astronaut designates for Gaganyaan mission. For India-US Axiom-4, US’ Peggy Whitson, Poland’s Slawosz Uznanski, Hungary’s Tibor Kapu will also be part of crew.
Training footage released by ISRO reveals aspects of survival training, parabolic weightlessness, extreme g-force simulation, psychological tests, and more.
Captain Prasanth Nair, Group Captain Ajit Krishnan, Group Captain Angad Pratap and Wing Commander Shubhanshu Shukla are undergoing training for India's maiden human space flight.
On 1 February 2003, Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian woman to fly to space, was just minutes away from landing on Earth aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. It was already too late.
The selection of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan is curious. Especially when Pakistanis currently constitute one of the largest groups claiming asylum in the UK.
In a first during his tenure as High Commissioner to India, Riaz Hamidullah addressed JOCAP consisting of tri-forces officers, as New Delhi & Dhaka step up normalisation efforts.
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.
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