New Delhi, July 15 -- Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three other crew members of the Axiom-4 mission will return to Earth today after spending 18 days at the International Space Station (ISS). They departed from the orbiting laboratory ISS yesterday, onboard the SpaceX Dragon for an approximately 22-hour journey to Earth. The splashdown is expected to take place off the coast of California in the US at 3 pm IST today.

Akashvani Correspondent reports that Axiom-4 mission's space odyssey began on June 25 when the Falcon-9 rocket carrying the Dragon space capsule blasted off from Florida towards the ISS. Group Captain Shukla is only the second Indian to have gone to space. His trip came 41 years after cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma flew ab...