India, Aug. 21 -- Astronaut and Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla on Thursday spoke about his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi after returning to India.

Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Shukla, who became the first Indian astronaut to visit the International Space Station as part of the Axiom-4 mission, said the prime minister asked him first whether he had done the "homework" assigned to him.

"First of all, he (PM Modi) asked me whether I had done my homework or not, that was his very first question. After that, we had a very good discussion about the mission (Axiom-4)," Shukla said, according to PTI.

Shukla, who became the second Indian to undertake a spaceflight, said the prime minister asked in detail about how th...