Overview

• As chief guest at AKTU’s convocation, Shukla received an honorary Doctor of Science and told the Class of 2025 their degrees are tools for nation-building.
• He distilled his experience into seven principles for success, emphasizing patience, focus, daily discipline, adaptability, collaboration, courage and finding joy in the work.
• Shukla described mission lessons from a 32-day pre-launch quarantine and a high-heat re-entry, sharing how training and teamwork guided decisions under pressure.
• He noted that his Axiom-4 flight carried Indian-designed microgravity experiments, reported as a first for India’s research in space.
• Setting the broader context, he pointed to ISRO milestones and goals, citing Chandrayaan-3’s south-pole landing, a target for an Indian space station by 2035 and a crewed Moon landing by 2040.