This is an archive article published on July 10, 2025
Axiom-4 mission: Shubhanshu Shukla to return to earth on July 14, says NASA
The Axiom-4 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre at Florida on June 25 and the Dragon spacecraft docked at the International Space Station on June 26 after a 28-hour journey.
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, India's first astronaut to reach the International Space Station (ISS), reflected on his experience in orbit (Photo/X @mygovindia)
Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla is likely to return to Earth on July 14, as per NASA, reported PTI.
“We are working with the station program, watching the Axiom-4 progress carefully. I think we need to undock that mission and the current target to undock is July 14,” PTI quoted Steve Stitch, Manager, NASA Commercial Crew Program, as saying in a press conference.
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Earlier, it was reported that Shubhanshu Shukla’s return to Earth before July 14 was unlikely, as the European Space Agency (ESA) had said that its astronaut, Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski of Poland, one of Shukla’s colleagues on the Axiom-4 mission, will return to Germany after July 14.
Shukla and his fellow Axiom-4 astronauts have spent around two weeks on the orbital lab. Former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, ESA (European Space Agency) astronauts Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski of Poland, and Tibor Kapu of Hungary are part of the Axiom-4 mission.
The Axiom-4 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre at Florida on June 25 and the Dragon spacecraft docked at the International Space Station on June 26 after a 28-hour journey.
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, India's first astronaut to reach the International Space Station (ISS), reflected on his experience in orbit (Photo/X @mygovindia) 
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