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Indian Air Force officer Shubhanshu Shukla has been selected as a pilot for NASA’s Exium Mission 4. Soon they will go to the International Space Station with the Space X Dragon SpaceCraft.
IAF officer Shubhanshu will be the first Indian to visit ISS. This mission will run for 14 days. Who will do research there. Shubhanshu is taking training for ISRO’s mission Gaganyaan.
The commander of the mission will be in the hand of Paigi Whitson. Shubhanshu Shukla will be a pilot. They will accompany them to Exium Mission-4 between Mission Specialists Swavosh Ujnanski-Vishanvski and Tibor Kapu April and June 2025.
Apart from India in the mission, Astronauts of Poland-Hungary also
Commander Paigi Whitson- Pagi has served as the commander of the AX-2 mission. NASA has the most experienced astronaut of America over 675 days, including his career, with his career.
Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla- Shubhanshu is a pilot in the Indian Air Force. He has been selected for ISRO’s Gaganyaan Mission. This is India’s first man mission in space.
Mission Specialist Slavose Uznansky-Viznievski- Slavose of Poland has been an engineer of Cern. Slavos is a member of the European Space Agency’s Astronaut Reserve Class of 2022.
Mission Specialist Tibor Capu- Kapu is a mechanical engineer from Hungary, who mastered Space Radiation Protection. In 2023, he was elected to Hunor (Hungarian to Orbit).
Shubhanshu said- I will do yoga in space, I will bring pictures
With the announcement of the name, NASA held a press conference on Exium Mission 4. In which pilot Shubhanshu said that in the mission coming, I will take some Indian food with me, who will also feed my colleagues. I will also do yoga in space. I will bring pictures there so that Indians get a chance to proud.
AXM-4 will research 14 days ISS
ISS’s first private astronaut mission, the Exium Mission, was launched on 1 April 2022, which lasted for 17 days in the Orbiting Lab. The second Exium Mission was sent in 2, May 2023. This mission spent eight days on ISS. The Exium Mission was launched in 3, January 2024. It spent 18 days at the station. 14 days time for Exium Mission 4 has been fixed.
Now know about Pilot Shubhanshu …
Shubhanshu was born on 10 October 1985 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. He is 38 years old. He is a fighter pilot and combat leader. He has a flight experience of over 2000 hours. He has so far flown planes like Sukhoi-30 MKI, MiG-21, MiG-29, Jaguar, Hawk, Dornier and AN-32.
Shubhanshu is also an alumnus of the National Defense Academy (NDA). He was commissioned in the fighter stream of the Indian Air Force on 17 June 2006.
