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A test pilot decorated with the IAF, Shukla, was preselected under the ISRO space flight program (HSP) and is among the main contestants for the Gaganyan mission.
Captain of the IAF Shubhanshu Shukla group (file)
The captain of the Indian Air Force Group (IAF), Shubhanshu Shukla, a designated by Gaganyatri or Astronauts, will travel to the International Space Station (ISS) in May as part of an Axiom-4 mission, announced the center on Friday.
Union’s Minister of Space and Technology, Dr. Jitendra Singh, said: “The international space mission that leads an Indian astronaut is scheduled for next month. India is prepared to write a defining chapter on its space trip. An Indian astronaut is ready for a space mission of Isro as Isro New Frontiers. The spatial dreams of India are high higher with Gaganyaan preparations Gaganyaan preparations, and a launch launch summer. ” “.” “.” “.” “.”
Shukla will fly to ISS in a commercial mission with private funds. According to reports, India has paid around $ 60 million for the mission.
Axiom-4 mission
AX-4 will be Astronaut’s fourth private mission to ISS. The mission is scheduled to launch from the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a Spacex Dragon spacecraft, which will be driven by a Falcon 9 rocket.
The commander of the Axiom-4 mission (AX-4) will be the former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, who now works for the axiom space. The other two crew members are Slawosz Uznanski in Poland, who is an astronaut of the European Space Agency and will be a mission specialist, and the Hungarians Tibor Kapu, who also will have the same role. The captain of the Shukla group will be the pilot of the mission.
Who is Shubhanshu Shukla?
The captain of the Shubhanshu Shukla group, from lucky, is a student or a mountain school in the city in Aliganj. Commissioner as a combat pilot in 2006, he has accumulated about 16 years of service and more than 2,000 flight hours.
Call with affection as Gunjan, Shukla is the youngest of three brothers and the first in his family to join the Armed Forces.
Shubhanshu was commissioned in the Indian Air Force on June 17, 2006, and describes his career as a “roller mountain monkey.” He has stood out in his field, becoming a combat combat leader and test pilot with experience in several aircraft, including Su-30mki, MiG-21, MIG-29, Jaguar and Hawk.
A test pilot decorated with the IAF, Shukla, was preselected under the ISRO space flight program (HSP) and is among the main contestants for the Gaganyan mission.
He has been training with NASA and the private space company Axiom Space during the last eight months.
The captain of the Shukla group will also be the country’s first astronaut to travel to space in more than four decades after the iconic 1984 flight of Rakesh Sharma aboard a Soviet soy spaceship.
(With agencies inputs)