{"id":941417,"date":"2025-06-26T07:24:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T01:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=941417"},"modified":"2025-06-26T07:39:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T02:09:21","slug":"indian-back-in-space-after-41-years-shubhanshu-shukla-lifts-off-on-axiom-4-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/26\/indian-back-in-space-after-41-years-shubhanshu-shukla-lifts-off-on-axiom-4-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian back in space after 41 years, Shubhanshu Shukla lifts off on Axiom-4 mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Air Force Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla lifted off aboard SpaceX\u2019s Dragon spacecraft from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center at 12:01 pm on Wednesday, achieving the rare feat of being only the second Indian to journey to space after Rakesh Sharma\u2019s historic flight in 1984. <\/p>\n<p>On the 14-day trip for the Axiom mission (Ax-4), the four-member crew including NASA veteran Peggy Whitson, Poland\u2019s S\u0142awosz Uzna\u0144ski-Wi\u015bniewski, and Hungary\u2019s Tibor Kapu will conduct more than 60 scientific experiments representing 31 countries aboard the International Space Station (ISS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Air Force Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla lifted off aboard SpaceX\u2019s Dragon spacecraft from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center at 12:01 pm on Wednesday, achieving the rare feat of being only the second Indian to journey to space after Rakesh Sharma\u2019s historic flight in 1984. On the 14-day trip for the Axiom mission (Ax-4), the four-member crew including NASA veteran Peggy Whitson, Poland\u2019s S\u0142awosz Uzna\u0144ski-Wi\u015bniewski, and Hungary\u2019s Tibor Kapu will conduct more than 60 scientific experiments representing 31 countries aboard the International Space Station (ISS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}