Overview

• Group Captain Shukla is en route to India and expected to land this weekend after completing post-flight rehabilitation and debriefings in Houston
• He is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi before traveling to Lucknow to reunite with his family
• Shukla will participate in National Space Day celebrations on August 22–23 alongside fellow Gaganyaan astronaut designates
• The Axiom-4 mission returned seven India-specific microgravity experiments whose samples and data are now heading to ISRO for analysis
• The Axiom-4 collaboration among ISRO, NASA, SpaceX and Axiom Space is viewed as a blueprint for India’s human spaceflight ambitions and its future national space station