Bengaluru, Nov. 20 -- Axiom Space astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla on Thursday recounted how spaceflight completely rewires human instincts, recalling how a mic floated beside him in orbit and how, days later on Earth, he nearly dropped his laptop because his mind was still behaving as if gravity did not exist.
Shukla said the most striking part of his mission aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon was learning to trust weightlessness. "When you reach space, you are basically swimming in air. You can let go of things and they simply stay there - but your mind doesn't believe it," he said, addressing "Future Makers" session at the Bengaluru Summit 2025. In his first few days in orbit, he hesitated to release even a mic, convinced it would fall, and found o...