India Celebrates First Astronaut Visit to International Space Station

India Celebrates First Astronaut Visit to International Space Station

Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla shared an emotional moment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, June 28, 2025, describing how seeing India's flag aboard the International Space Station (ISS) stirred deep pride. Shukla arrived at the orbital outpost Thursday, June 26, 2025, as part of the four-member Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) crew.

Modi celebrated the mission as "the successful first chapter of India's Gaganyaan dream," referencing the nation's ambitious human spaceflight program. The Ax-4 crew launched aboard a SpaceX rocket and Dragon spacecraft from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking another milestone for Axiom Space's commercial spaceflight operations.

Shubhanshu Shukla (India)
https://www.axiomspace.com/astronaut/shubhanshu-shukla

Learn more about Ax-4:
https://www.axiomspace.com/missions/ax4

Follow Expedition 73:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 73 Crew

Station Commander: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Flight Engineer Takuya Onishi
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Kirill Peskov, Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritskiy

NASA Flight Engineers: Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Jonny Kim

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Video Credit: Shanghai Eye
Duration: 1 minute, 28 seconds
Release Date: June 29, 2025

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