Shubhanshu Shukla will fly for space today, know timing

Updated: 25-06-2025, 06.35 AM

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Shubhanshu Shukla Exam-4 Mission: Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, three other crew members have left for the international space station. According to Indian time, the mission was launched at 12.15 pm. NASA said that there is a timing of docking at 4.30 pm on Thursday evening. The mission is being conducted by Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla of the Indian Air Force. Crew is traveling to the International Space Station (ISS) riding on a new SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket. The mission is headed by US Commander Paigi Whitson, with Shubhanshu Shukla Mission Pilot and Hungarian astronaut Tibor Kapu and Slavose Uznansky-Visnivsky Mission expert.

What is docking timing

Atensplants flew from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After the company’s Falcon 9 rocket is launched, the crew will travel to the Parikrama Laboratory at a new SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. NASA said in a statement that the docking time of the mission is at 4.30 pm on Thursday, 26 June as per Indian Standards Time.

NASA’s former astronaut and Human Space Flight Director Paigie at the Ex -Space is commanding the Paigi Whitson Mission, while ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla will serve as a pilot. There are two mission experts – Poland’s ESA (European Space Agency) Project Astronaut Slavose Slavose Uznansky -Vyshnievski and Hungarian HURR (Hungarian to Orbit) astronaut Tibor Kapu.

What is space docking

Docking occurs when a spacecraft connects itself to the space station. Docking technology in space is useful when several rockets are launched in space to achieve normal mission objectives. Space docking is a complex process of bringing and connecting the spacecraft running at the same orbit at the same orbit. Please tell that Shubhanshu Shukla is becoming another Indian to travel space after about 40 years. Prior to this, Rakesh Sharma traveled to space in 1984 from the Soyuz spacecraft of Russia.

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