Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla has returned to Earth after an 18-day mission on the ISS, marking him as the first Indian to visit the station. As part of the Axiom-4 mission, his journey paves the way for India's Gaganyaan mission in 2027.

The Axiom-04 mission has successfully concluded with the return of ISRO Gaganyatri Shubhanshu Shukla, marking a proud moment both for ISRO and India as he returned after a historic 18-day scientific mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station’s first visitors from India, Poland and Hungary headed back to Earth on Monday, wrapping up a private mission and catching a ride home with SpaceX. Their capsule undocked from the orbiting lab and aimed for a splashdown the next morning in the Pacific off the Southern California coast.

The Axiom-4 crew is to reach Earth onboard a SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft with a splashdown off the coast of California on Tuesday,3 PM (IST) after a 22.5-hour journey from the ISS.

Houston-based Axiom Space launched its fourth crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS) early Wednesday (June 25), lifting off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KCS), in Florida. The mission lifted off from KSC's Launch Complex-39A at 2:31 a.m. EDT (0631 GMT).

A SpaceX vehicle carrying four astronauts on a private mission for Axiom Space is on its way to the International Space Station.

Over time, Axiom hopes to make multiple additional ISS modules that could one day form an entirely new space station even after the ISS is decommissioned. Update, 4/8/22, ...