India, July 15 -- Axiom Mission 4, with Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three other crew members, departed from the International Space Station (ISS) early on Monday and embarked on their journey to return the Earth. If all goes as planned, the Dragon capsule will re-enter Earth's atmosphere and land in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on Tuesday around 3:01 pm IST. According to the Axiom Space X handle, a live coverage of the splashdown will begin at 2 pm IST on the Axiom Space website.

Dr Jitendra Singh, Union minister of science and technology, also posted on X, saying the spacecraft's arrival planned at 3 pm and that "these timings have a margin window of approximately 1 hour".

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft undock...