Following the successful completion of its 18-day mission at the International Space Station (ISS), the nation welcomed the return of AXIOM-4 Mission Group captain Shubanshu Shukla.
As seen from images shared on social media, Captain Shukla can be seen hugging his family after meeting him.
“The spaceflight is incredible – but nothing compared to keeping his loved ones again,” they shared.
After spending 18 days at the International Space Station (ISS), during which he moved around the Earth 288 times, Indian astronaut Shubanshu Shukla and his colleagues on the Axiom-4 mission Started his 22 -hour return journey on earth On Monday afternoon.
Shukla’s spacecraft just before uninterrupted. (Image: NASA)
After spending 433 hours in the ISS, astronauts moved around India’s time around 2 pm in their docked spacecraft. It took two hours to prepare for the return journey. The automatic unwarded process starting at around 4:45 pm included a separate spacecraft that connected it to the command, telemetry, and the power of the ISS. The spacecraft then released 12 hard capture hooks in two phases, which took about four minutes in total. After that, the engine moved away from the ISS using a series of burn.
His journey on Earth involves four emphasis by on-board engines-burning a departure, a phased burning to reduce the orbit, another to bring it to the necessary position to enter the Earth’s atmosphere, and then a D-Orbit Burn pushed the spacecraft into the Earth. After re -entering the Earth’s atmosphere, the space capsule will be slowed using parachutes to enable a controlled splashdown on the site specified in the Pacific Ocean.
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