Chennai, July 14 -- Union Minister for Science and Technology Dr Jitendra Singh
today welcomed back Indian astronaut, who piloted the Ax-4 mission to ISS and said the
entire nation was eagerly awaiting his arrival back home after a 18-day stay at the orbital
platform.
The four-member Ax-4 crew undocked from ISS after the hatch was closed upon boarding
the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from the space-facing port of the International Space
Station's Harmony module, completing the fourth private astronaut mission to the orbiting
laboratory, Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4).
During his 18-day docking at ISS, Shux, who became the second Indian to travel to space
in 41 years after Rakesh Sharma in 1984, conducted seven microgravity experiments and
his v...