India, June 25 -- After multiple delays, Axiom 4 carrying Shubhanshu Shukla along with three other crew members is set to launch today. The mission will lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, in the famous SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. With this mission Captain Shubhanshu Shukla will become the second Indian to travel to space after Rakesh Sharma's 1984 mission.

Shubhanshu Shukla is a serving IAF officer and a part of Indian Space Research Organisation's historic Gaganyaan mission, India's first crewed spaceflight mission.

Born on October 10, 1985, in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, Shukla is fluent in both English and Hindi. In 2005, he completed his military training and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the N...