New Delhi, June 26 -- In a historic feat for India, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla on Thursday entered the International Space Station after successfully docking the Dragon spacecraft to the under the private astronaut mission Axiom Mission 4.

The Dragon spacecraft autonomously docked to the space-facing port of the space station's Harmony module at around 4 pm IST on Thursday, ahead of its schedule. This is the first time in more than 40 years that astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary arrived at the International Space Station.

"Dragon spacecraft docked with the @Space_Station at 6:31am ET (1031 UTC)," NASA said in a post on X.

The crew members entered the ISS at roughly 6:10 p...