India, Sept. 23 -- Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, India's first astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Axiom-4 mission, has offered a vivid glimpse into the surreal experience of life in orbit. In a post on X, Shukla shared a video of himself changing a camera lens aboard the ISS, only to realise that the equipment refused to drop as it would on Earth. "Believe it or not - Everything you see in this frame is falling," Shukla wrote, explaining the strange science behind the phenomenon.

Shukla recalled that, during his first days aboard the station, he felt hesitant to release objects. "In space, my early instinct was to politely hand over items to crew-mates instead of just releasing them," he said. Acco...