Indian Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla Reaches Space Station, Dragon Capsule Successfully Docks

A new history has been added to the history related to the country’s space on Thursday. Indian Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, who is involved in the Axiom-4 mission, has achieved a major success by reaching the International Space Station (ISS). The four -member crew of this mission includes Shukla, apart from the American Peggy Whitson, Slawosz Uznanski Wisniieski of Poland and Tibor Kapu of Hungary. India’s first astronaut Rakesh Sharma made history by reaching space in 1984.

California’s Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday in America SpaceX The Falcon 9 rocket was launched on Wednesday at 12.01 PM with the spacecraft Dragon of this mission. After about 29 hours of flight of this spacecraft, there is a docking with ISS on 4.01 on Thursday. After this docking, the crew and cargo of the Axiom-4 mission have reached ISS. Shukla has taken responsibility as a pilot of this mission. The US space agency is more than 400 km of ISS from Kennedy Space Center in NASA.

ISS is moving around the earth very fast and it takes about 90 minutes to complete an orbital cycle. Dragon Spacecraft your way of orbit ISS There have been considerable adjustments to synchronize with the current status of. For this, this spacecraft has roamed around the earth at least twice while changing its speed and path. This process is important for accurate and safe docking with ISS.

Axiom-4 mission crew members will do several experiments on ISS. Seven of these experiments will be led by Shukla. There is a participation of 31 countries in this mission, the NASA and the American Space Infrastructure Developer Axiom Space made strict preparations to bring this mission to ISS with security. For this, the launch of the mission was also postponed several times. Along with these astronauts, a Swain Toy called Joy has also been sent as his indicator of zero gravity. This mission can give the Indian Space Agency ISRO important lessons for the preparation of the country’s first Human Space Mission Gaganyaan.