Axiom-4: With hugs and cheers, Shubhanshu Shukla floats in ISS- first visuals | India News
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Axiom-4: With hugs and cheers, Shubhanshu Shukla floats in ISS- first visuals
SpaceX’s new Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station on Thursday. It took around two hours to complete the hatch-opening procedures before the astronauts could enter the space station. Shubhanshu Shukla has become the second Indian in space, following Rakesh Sharma’s mission in 1984. Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski is the second Polish astronaut to fly to space since 1978.
, were welcomed with hugs and drinks as they stepped into the International Space Station on Thursday.
The newly launched spacecraft — the fifth in the Dragon series and named Grace — successfully completed a soft docking with the International Space Station at 16.01 while orbiting above the North Atlantic Ocean.
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“At 6:31 am EDT (4:01 IST) on Thursday, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station for the fourth private astronaut mission to the orbiting laboratory, Axiom Mission 4,” the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (
) announced in a statement.
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Following the spacecraft’s soft docking, a secure connection — known as hard-mating — was established as 12 sets of hooks locked the two orbiting structures together, enabling communication and power links to be activated.
It took around two hours to complete the hatch-opening procedures before the astronauts could enter the space station.
Shubhanshu Shukla has become the second Indian in space, following Rakesh Sharma’s mission in 1984. Joining him on the Axiom-4 mission are Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski, the second Polish astronaut since 1978, and Tibor Kapu, the second Hungarian to fly to space after a 45-year gap. The crew launched from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Centre on Wednesday en route to the International Space Station.