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Shubhanshu Shukla, Group Captain, conferred Ashoka Chakra

January 26, 2026 admin

In this screengrab from a video posted on January 26, 2026, President Droupadi Murmu confers India’s highest peacetime gallantry award, Ashoka Chakra, to Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla during the 77th Republic Parade, at Kartavya Path, in New Delhi. Pho(to Credit: YT/@NarendraModi via PTI President Droupadi Murmu on Monday (January 26, 2026) conferred India’s highest peacetime…

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Shubhanshu Shukla Awarded Ashoka Chakra

January 25, 2026 admin

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who created history by becoming the first Indian to visit the International Space Station (ISS), was on Monday awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India’s highest peacetime gallantry award. In June last year, Shukla became the second Indian to have gone to space and the first one to set foot on the ISS…

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Grew up shy, didn’t think will fly to space: Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla

August 24, 2025 admin

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla addresses the felicitation ceremony of Gaganyatris, in New Delhi, on August 24, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla on Sunday (August 24, 2025) said he grew up as a “shy and reserved” person and while young, he never dreamt of flying to space. Shukla, who spoke at an IAF…

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SpaceX took oxygen leak before Axiom-4 launch ‘lightly’: ISRO Chairman

August 21, 2025 admin

ISRO chairman V. Narayanan addresses an ISRO Press Meet, at the National Media Centre in New Delhi on August 21, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman, V. Narayanan, on Thursday (August 21, 2025), said the Falcon 9 rocket team that launched Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla to the…

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Defence Minister meets Shubhanshu Shukla, says his journey will motivate young people

August 21, 2025 admin

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS), in New Delhi on August 21, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday (August 21, 2025) met Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian astronaut to board the International Space Station (ISS),…

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Lok Sabha discusses Shubhanshu Shukla’s space mission: Indian on moon will herald Viksit Bharat in 2040, says Jitendra Singh

August 18, 2025 admin

An Indian astronaut will herald Viksit Bharat by landing on the moon in 2040, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Monday (August 18, 2025) as the Lok Sabha took up the discussion on astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla’s space sojourn. Initiating a discussion on ‘India’s first astronaut aboard the International Space Station — Critical role of the…

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Shubhanshu Shukla to pilot Axiom-4 Mission: My journey to space will be the journey of 1.4 billion fellow Indians

January 30, 2025 admin

Axiom Mission 4 crew clockwise: Commander Peggy Whitson, Mission Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla, Mission Specialist Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewsk, and Mission Specialist Tibor Kapu. Photo: X/@Axiom_Space Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla will be the pilot of the upcoming Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station (ISS). NASA and its international partners announced on Thursday (January 30, 2025)…

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Axiom-4, Shubhanshu Shukla, Axiom-4: Indian Astronaut Will Pilot Mission To International Space Station: Axiom Space

November 10, 2024 admin

The crew will be led by America’s most experienced astronaut, Dr Peggy Annette Whitson. New Delhi: The ISRO-NASA joint astronaut mission, which will see an Indian travelling to the International Space Station for the first time, is expected to launch between April and June next year and the US-based company facilitating this, Axiom Space, hopes…

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“Sunita Williams In Safest Possible Place In Space”: ISRO Chief S Somanath

August 6, 2024 admin

Mr Somanath said he expects Ms Williams to return on the Boeing Starliner capsule. New Delhi: Astronaut Sunita Williams’ mission may have been prolonged because of glitches in the Boeing Starliner capsule but she is in the “safest possible place in space” and there is no cause for concern, ISRO Chairman S Somanath has said. …

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