India, Aug. 18 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, the pilot of the Axiom-4 Space Mission to the International Space Station (ISS), at his Lok Kalyan Marg residence in Delhi.

Modi welcomed Shukla, who was wearing an ISRO astronaut's jacket, with a warm hug and walked with him with his arm on the astronaut's shoulder.

During the meeting, Shukla presented the Axiom-4 mission patch to PM Modi and shared pictures of the Earth taken from the International Space Station.

Shukla, who became the second Indian to undertake a spaceflight as part of the Axiom-4 mission, returned to India early Sunday to a rousing welcome at the Delhi airport on Sunday.

Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta, Union minister of sci...