India, June 26 -- The Axiom-4 Mission carrying astronaut and Indian Air Force (IAF) Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla and three other specialists entered the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday.

The Axiom-4 successfully docked at ISS just after 4 pm. It was launched from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday.

Shukla piloted a SpaceX Dragon aircraft which was launched for the space expedition.

He is accompanied by mission specialists Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski (Poland), Tibor Kapu (Hungary) and Commander Peggy Whitson (United States).

Earlier, Indian astronaut Rakesh Sharma spent eight days in orbit as a part of the Soviet mission to Space in 1984.

Shukla, who hails from the north Indian st...