Astronauts generally travel light - as every kilo adds to the cost of the mission.
But a few unusual things have found their way into the bags of Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla - the air force pilot set to make history by becoming only the second Indian to travel to space and the first ever to visit the International Space Station (ISS).
In just a few hours, the Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) is set to take off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Nasa has announced.
Scheduled for 02:31 EDT, (06:31 GMT; 12:01 India time) on Wednesday, Ax-4 will be led by former Nasa astronaut Peggy Whitson - a space veteran who has been commander of ISS twice, spent hundreds of days in space and done 10 space walks.
Ax-4 will be piloted by Group Captain Shukla whose trip comes 41 years after cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian to fly to space aboard a Russian Soyuz in 1984. He spent nearly eight days there.
