After successful achievement of the ISS, the shoche will only become the second Indian after the IAF Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma reached historic feat over four decades ago in 1984 as part of the joint mission of India and the former Soviet Union.
Indian pilot -test Shubhanshu Shukla is ready to fly to the International Space Station (ISS), as well as three other astronauts, in a few weeks.
Shukla-Captain Group in the Indian Air Force (IAF)-will serve as a pilot of the main mission in Axiom Mission 4 (AX-4), which is likely to start next month.
So who is Shubhanshu Shukla?
2 -II Indian in space
39 -year -old Shukla was born in 1985 in Laknau, Uttar Pradesh.
After successful achievement of the ISS, the shoche will only become the second Indian after the IAF Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma reached historic feat over four decades ago in 1984 as part of the joint mission of India and the former Soviet Union.
As part of the AX-4 Shukla will be accompanied by Pega Witson (former NASA Mission Commander), Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski from Poland, and Tiber Cabbage from Hungary.
Isro-Nasa Collab
The Indian Space Organization (ISRO) has collaborated with the US National Aviation and Space Administration (NASA) and Axiom Space-Space Infrastructure founded in Houston for this mission.
India also selected Captain IAF Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair as a backup pilot for a mission in the event that the bangs cannot fly.
About the Mission Ax-4
AKS-4, the fourth private mission of the astronaut in the ISS, is scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the USA. It will be launched aboard SpaceX Dragon, raised by the Falcon-9 missile. Four astronauts are planned to be carried out up to 14 days aboard the ISS, conducting scientific, information and commercial activities.
