India, June 10 -- The launch of the Axiom-4 mission, which includes Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, has been postponed from Tuesday to Wednesday, June 11.

Shukla is set to make history as the first Indian astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS), and only the second Indian to travel to space, 41 years after Rakesh Sharma's landmark 1984 mission aboard Soviet Russia's Soyuz spacecraft.

The Ax-4 crew features astronauts from India, Poland, and Hungary. For all three nations, this marks their first mission to the ISS. According to Axiom Space, Ax-4 also represents the second government-sponsored human spaceflight mission for India in over four decades.

This fourth private astronaut mission by Axiom Space ...