Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4)
Published on 28 Oct 2025
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla created history, becoming the first Indian astronaut to reach the International Space Station (ISS) as the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission successfully docked with the orbiting laboratory, 41 years after Rakesh Sharma’s 1984 mission.
The Ax-4 crew, launched aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from Nasa's Kennedy Space Centre, completed a 28-hour journey before executing a flawless docking manoeuvre at the ISS's Harmony module.
Axiom Mission 4 is the fourth all-private astronaut mission to the orbiting laboratory.
