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Indian Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla seeing Earth from Kapola module of International Space Station.
New photos from Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla’s International Space Station (ISS) have surfaced on social media on Saturday. In this, Shubhanshu is seen watching Earth from the window of ISS’s Kapola module.
These photos have been shared by ISRO, Central Government and American Space Company Aceum. In some pictures, Shubhanshu was also seen doing photography of the earth. The Kapola module is a domed observation window, which consists of 7 windows.
It is designed to see and control astronauts to see and control the functioning of outer space, earth and station outside the station. Kapola window is considered a place to take the most beautiful pictures of the Earth on ISS.
4 Astronauts, including Indian Air Force Group Captain Shubhanshu, left for ISS on 25 June. After the journey of about 28 hours, I reached ISS on June 26 at 4:01 pm. Today, 9 days have been completed on Shubhanshu on ISS. He is the first Indian to visit ISS and the second Indian to go into space.
Photos of Shubhanshu Shukla from Kapola …
Shubhanshu Shukla saw the beautiful view of the earth with the windows of the Kapola module of ISS.
Shubhanshu Shukla has a smile on his face. They look healthy and happy.
Shubhanshu also took pictures of Earth from the camera inside the Kapola module.
The central government wrote on X- Shubhanshu has represented India among the stars in space.
Shubhanshu told PM- there is no limit from space Prime Minister Modi spoke on a video call from Shubhanshu on 28 June. He asked what he felt first after seeing space, then Group Captain Shukla said, ‘From space, you do not see any limit. The whole earth looks united. ‘
Shubhanshu told Prime Minister Modi- India looks very grand from space. We see 16 sunrise and 16 sunset a day. Prime Minister Modi asked Shubhanshu Shukla that you have gone to the international space station with carrot pudding. Did you feed your colleagues? On this, Shubhanshu said that yes, he sat with his colleagues and ate it.
The picture is on 26 June, when Shubhanshu entered the space station after opening the hatch. They met fellow Astronaut.
Shubhanshu Shukla is part of the Exium-4 mission
Shubhanshu Shukla is part of the Exium-4 mission, for which India has paid 548 crore rupees for one seat. It is a private space flight mission, which is being partnership with American Space Company Exium, NASA and SpaceX. The company sends ISS to private astronauts in its spacecraft.
Shubhanshu will do 7 uses of Indian Education Institutes in ISS. Most of them are biological studies. They will do 5 other experiments with NASA, in which will collect data for long space missions. The experiments conducted in this mission will strengthen India’s Gaganyaan Mission.
After 41 years, an Indian astronaut went to space Indian Air Force Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla has been selected for this mission as part of an agreement between US space agency NASA and Indian agency ISRO. Rakesh Sharma of India, 41 years ago, traveled space in 1984 with a Soviet Union’s spacecraft.
This experience of Shubhanshu will be useful in the Gaganyaan Mission of India. This is India’s first human space mission, which aims to send Indian sky passengers to the lower orbit of the Earth. It is likely to be launched in 2027. In India, Astronaut is called Gaganayatri. Similarly, Cosmonott in Russia and Taikonott in China are called.
Shubhanshu Shukla has been given the number 634 at the space station.
6 times postponed Exium-4 mission
- On May 29, the launch was postponed due to the dragon spacecraft not being ready.
- It was scheduled on 8 June. Falcon-9 rocket was not ready for launch.
- The new date was given June 10. Again it was postponed due to bad weather.
- The mission schedule was held on 11 June for the fourth time. This time oxygen was leaked.
- The new date was given June 19. The uncertainty of the weather, the crew was averted due to the health of the members.
- For the sixth time the mission was scheduled for 22 June. Additional time was required to evaluate the Jewjda service module of ISS. Hence the mission was averted.
Mission objective: part of planning to build space station
The main objective of the AX-4 mission is to do research in space and test new technology. This mission is also for promoting private space travel and is part of Exium Space Planning, which plans to build a commercial space station (Exium station) in the future.
- Scientific experiment: Different experiments in microgravity.
- Technology testing: Testing and development of new techniques in space.
- International cooperation: Providing a platform to astronauts from different countries.
- Educational Activities: To inspire people from space to Earth and spread awareness.
