India, June 25 -- In a milestone moment for India's space legacy, astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla is set to become the first Indian to reach the International Space Station (ISS) in 41 years. Shukla, along with three other crew members, boarded SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday for the much-anticipated Axiom-4 commercial space mission.

The mission's launch, scheduled for 12:01 pm IST, marks a major milestone for Indo-US collaboration in space. Weather conditions were reported to be 90% favorable for lift-off. Shukla, a native of Lucknow, will join former NASA astronaut and mission commander Peggy Whitson, Poland's Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski, and Hungary's Tibor Kapu on the voyage.

Their journ...