“Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma has been actively involved in the (Gaganyaan) process, from selection of the astronauts to the kind of training we are undergoing. He is really involved with the human ...

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla will become the second Indian to travel to space, four decades after Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma's historic ... him as a key astronaut for India's upcoming ...

His love for aviation found structure at the National Defence Academy (NDA ... pilot to astronaut, from India to the ISS—is just beginning. For a country that once watched Rakesh Sharma ...

Shukla will be India’s second astronaut to venture into space, nearly four decades after Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma’s historic 1984 journey aboard a Soviet spacecraft. The commercial mission will be ...

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla of the Indian Air Force (IAF) is set to create history by becoming the first Indian astronaut to travel as a Pilot to the International Space Station (ISS).

In his first-ever interaction, Shukla also affectionately called Shuks by his Axiom-4 crew said, "The first Indian astronaut Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma travelled to space in 1984. I was born in 1985 ...

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the two NASA astronauts who rode to the space station months ago on the Boeing Starliner, are slated to come home in late March. Also aboard the station are NASA ...

Indian Air Force (IAF) group captain Shubhanshu Shukla has been selected as the pilot for Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), NASA announced on Thursday. He will become the first Indian astronaut to travel to the ...

This comes 41 years after India’s first and only astronaut, Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma, flew on a Soviet mission to the then Salyut-7 space station. Interestingly, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, ...

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 ...

Set to launch this spring, the Ax-4 mission will carry four crew members to the station, including an astronaut from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), marking the first time an ISRO ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s two stuck astronauts took their first spacewalk together Thursday, exiting the International Space Station almost eight months after moving in. Commander Suni ...