New Delhi, June 26 -- As the Axiom-4 Mission's Dragon capsule, carrying Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three crewmates, successfully docked with the International Space Station, it marked a proud and emotional milestone --not just in global space exploration, but for one family watching thousands of kilometres away in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, an Indian Air Force officer and the mission's pilot, is leading India's return to space after more than four decades. Watching the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft achieve a successful docking with the ISS, his parents got emotional, a video shared by news agency PTI showed.

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