Group captain Shuhanshu Shukla, Indian Air Force Pilot Oxiom -4 Mission, shared a new message for spacecraft after the successful liftoff of the spacecraft.
“Hello everyone, Namaskar from space,” he congratulated riding on the SpaceX Dragon. “I am thrilled to come here with my fellow astronauts. Wow, what was this a ride.
The Indian astronaut said, “When the ride started, it was something – you were pushing back to the seat. It was a wonderful ride. And then suddenly nothing. You are swimming in a vacuum,” said the Indian astronaut.
Recalling his first few hours in space, Shukla admitted that he initially experienced discomfort over shooting in vacuum, although “had been sleeping a lot since yesterday.”
He said, “I was not feeling very good when we shoot in vacuum,” he said, “But I have been told that I have been sleeping a lot since yesterday.”
“Learning like a child … how to walk and eat in space; it’s a small step, but a stable and solid step for India’s human space program,” Shukla said.
After the visit of India’s first astronaut, Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma, Shukla’s spaceflight, who flew into space in 1984 riding on the Soviet Soyuz T -11 mission and spent seven days at the Salut 7 Space Station.
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A new Spacex Dragon Spacecraft, Axiom Mission 4 (AX-4) is the fourth private astronaut mission for the International Space Station. The mission is scheduled to do a dock at IST at 4 pm on 26 June.
In the next 14 days, the crew will make an intensive agenda of scientific research, commercial initiative and outreach activities.
Command by Paigie Whitson, director of NASA’s former Astronaut and Axiom Space’s Human Spaceflight, AX-4 Crew also includes Slavos Uznansky-Visnivski from Poland and Tibor Kapu from Hungary, who are working as a pilot as a mission specialist.
A collaborative effort between NASA and ISRO, mission science program includes muscle uplift, increase of microalge, existence of aquatic organisms in space, and microgravity conditions in human interaction with electronic interfaces.
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