India, July 13 -- Astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who is part of the Axiom-4 mission, referred to the words of Rakesh Sharma and said India still looked 'sare jahan se accha' (the best place in the world) from space.

He remarked during his farewell speech, ahead of leaving the International Space Station (ISS) following his two-and-a-half-week stay in the facility.

"It has been an incredible journey," he said in his farewell speech.

Praising his ISS colleague, Shukla said, "It has been made incredible because of all the people involved. It was an incredible joy to be here."

Looking back on his journey, Shukla said: "Over the past 2.5 weeks, we have done a lot of science on the station. We have done outreach activities and l...