Last Updated on 02/08/2024 by wccexam Desk
US space agency NASA will send India’s Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla to the International Space Station (ISS). ISRO gave this information in a statement on Friday. ISRO’s Human Space Flight Center (HSFC) has signed a Space Flight Agreement (SFA) with US-based Axiom Space for its upcoming Axiom-4 mission to the ISS, which will have two Indian prime and backup mission pilots.
According to the statement, Group Captain Shukla will be the primary mission pilot, while another IAF officer, Group Captain Prashant Balakrishnan Nair, will be the backup mission pilot. Both the officers are also known as ‘Gaganyatri’. Their training will begin in the first week of August.
Last year, four test pilots were selected from the Air Force and their primary training for the Gaganyaan mission began at ISRO’s Astronaut Training Centre in Bengaluru. The Gaganyaan mission is an ambitious programme aimed at demonstrating India’s human space flight capability. The mission plans to send a three-member crew to a 400-km orbit for a three-day mission that will culminate in a safe return to Earth in Indian waters.
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Who is Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla?
Lucknow-born Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla’s journey in the Indian Air Force began almost 18 years ago. He entered the National Defence Academy for rigorous and long military training. According to Group Captain Shukla’s elder sister, he was inspired to join the armed forces after reading heroic tales of bravery and sacrifice of Indian soldiers during Kargil.
His elder sister told that he was only 14 years old when the Kargil war broke out in 1999. Pakistani intruders had crossed the Line of Control (LoC) and encroached upon Indian posts.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)