Air Force Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla and his Aciaom-4 team reached the International Space Station on Thursday (June 26, 2025). They have reached ISS after 28 hours of journey. After opening the hatch of the space station at around 6 pm in the evening, all Astronauts including Shubhanshu entered inside the ISS. During this time, the team present at the ISS welcomed him warmly.
After reaching the International Space Station, Shubhanshu Shukla gave a message to the countrymen while talking in Hindi in his welcome ceremony. He said, ‘With your love and blessings, I have reached the safe international space station.’ He further said, ‘It is very easy to stand here, but it is a bit difficult. A little head is heavy, there is a little problem, but these are very small things.
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He said that if we get used to it in a few days, then all these problems will not be there. This is the first stop of this journey and now we will stay here for 14 days and do many experiments and you will also talk to people.
‘The next 14 days are going to be very amazing’
Air Force Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla said that I am very excited to reach this place. I believe that all of you are as excited as me. He said that I am confident that the next 14 days are going to be very amazing, because we are going to do many research. Hail India.
Under the Axiom Mission 4 (June 25, 2025), all left for Astronaut ISS at around 12 noon). He flew from the Kennedy Space Center in the dragon capsule associated with SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket. The mission was postponed 6 times due to technical fault and seasonal problems.
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