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After an 18-day odyssey, completing 288 orbits, Shubhanshu Shukla, a pilot for the Axiom 4 crew aboard the Dragon capsule successfully returned to Earth in a controlled splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego at 12:35 p.m. IST on July 15 marking the completion of a landmark spaceflight.
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Shukla launched aboard SpaceX’s Dragon “Grace,” accompanied by an international team that included representatives from Hungary and Poland.
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The crew successfully docked with the ISS on June 26 for an 18-day research stay—an event keenly followed by global space observers.
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Shukla led advanced over 60 scientific experiments with the Axiom 4 team to study microgravity’s effects human body and different species of plants
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The Axion 4 team’s Dragon capsule undocked from the space station after 288 orbits
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The dagon capsule’s four main parachutes were deployed 4 minutes before the capsule’s splashdown in the pacific
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The capsule’s return to Earth culminated in a Pacific splashdown near San Diego on July 15.
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Shubhanshu Shukla, now only the second Indian to reach space exited the dragon capsule post return to Earth today.
