Who is Shubhanshu Shukla, the IAF officer heading to the ISS on Axiom-4 mission?

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla of the Indian Air Force is set to be the first Indian in over four decades to travel to space and board the International Space Station (ISS), with liftoff scheduled for June 11 as part of Axiom Space’s Ax-4 mission. The flight, launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon, marks a significant milestone in India’s growing human spaceflight ambitions.

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