Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla successfully completed an 18-day mission aboard the ISS, marking a significant achievement for India's space programme. The mission is celebrated as a moment of national pride and is expected to inspire the younger generation,

Shubhanshu Shukla, who became the first Indian astronaut in over four decades to visit the International Space Station (ISS), completed the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off California’s coast at 3:00 PM IST.