Bengaluru, June 25 -- Forty years ago, Rakesh Sharma looked out of a Soyuz capsule and famously told Prime Minister Indira Gandhi that India looked saare jahan se achha from space. Today, India is preparing to write the next chapter in that celestial story - not from a Cold War command center in Moscow, but from a cutting-edge, private mission led by American innovators and supported by international partners. Shubhanshu Shukla, one of the four astronauts trained under India's ambitious Gaganyaan programme, is set to soar into orbit aboard the Axiom-4 mission, a collaboration between Axiom Space, SpaceX, and NASA. If all goes to plan, he will soon be en route to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Falcon 9 rocket, joining an ex...