Florida, July 1 -- Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian astronaut at the International Space Station (ISS), conducted a critical biomedical experiment aboard the ISS on flight day 6 of the Axiom 4 Mission, focusing on how microgravity contributes to muscle loss.

Group Captain Shukla conducted detailed operations inside the Life Sciences Glovebox (LSG) as part of the myogenesis study, which aims to identify the molecular pathways that lead to skeletal muscle dysfunction in space.

As per a blog by Axiom Space on the mission, the findings from this study could play a vital role in developing targeted therapies to prevent muscle atrophy during long-duration missions and may also lead to new treatments for muscle-wasting disease...