Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who’s aboard the International Space Station (ISS) had a short interplay with students who had gathered on the U.R. Rao Satellite Centre (URSC) right here on Friday. He interacted with the scholar neighborhood through ham radio which lasted about 10 minutes.
The interplay overseen by the Amateur Radio on the ISS (ARISS) noticed the participation of roughly 70 students who posed questions on the Indian astronauts journey to the house station and day by day routine within the orbiting laboratory.
“One-and-a-half days (journey to the ISS) and thereafter you get to see the ISS… It was very exciting to see and the entire process of how the capsule approaches the station and then positions itself right in line with the docking port and thereafter goes ahead and docks into the port. It was a very, very exciting moment for me,” Gp Capt. Shukla stated replying to a query.
His Axiom-4 mission (Ax-4) to the International Space Station (ISS) was launched on June 25, 2025, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After a 28-and-a-half-hour journey on the ISS Dragon spacecraft, Gp Capt. Shukla and different crew members reached ISS.
He additionally spoke concerning the advanced docking course of. “So when we landed in the space station, there were two crew members who were able to reach the docking port. And thereafter you get to see the International Space Station, which is going to be your home for the next 14 days,” he stated.
The Gp Capt. additionally spoke concerning the experiments he has been conducting within the house station and the way sleeping is a problem there. “We have to tie our sleeping bags,” he stated.
