{"id":354530,"date":"2025-06-25T01:42:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=354530"},"modified":"2025-06-25T01:42:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:12:51","slug":"axiom-mission-launched-successfully-shubhanshu-shukla-makes-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/axiom-mission-launched-successfully-shubhanshu-shukla-makes-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Axiom Mission launched successfully, Shubhanshu Shukla makes history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/Axiom-Mission-launched-successfully-Shubhanshu-Shukla-makes-history.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-354531\" width=\"438\" height=\"245\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Carrying Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, Axiom Mission 4 (Ax 4) was on Wednesday launched successfully to the International Space Station (ISS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mission lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally scheduled for June 10,&nbsp; the mission was postponed multiple times.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group Capt Shukla is India&#8217;s second astronaut to venture into space.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian to fly to space<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Serving as mission pilot, Shukla is accompanied by commander Peggy Whitson and mission specialists S\u0142awosz Uzna\u0144ski-Wi\u015bniewski and Tibor Kapu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ax\u20114 is a planned private spaceflight to the ISS operated by Axiom Space in partnership with SpaceX and NASA.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crew will travel to the orbiting laboratory on a new SpaceX Dragon spacecraft after launching on the company&#8217;s Falcon 9 rocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrying Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, Axiom Mission 4 (Ax 4) was on Wednesday launched successfully to the International Space Station (ISS) The mission lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.&nbsp; Originally scheduled for June 10,&nbsp; the mission was postponed multiple times.&nbsp; Group Capt Shukla is India&#8217;s second astronaut to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":354531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[19886,19770],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354532,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354530\/revisions\/354532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/354531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}