Nostalgia hits hard: 41 years after Rakesh Sharma’s ‘saare jahan se acha’, Shubhanshu Shukla calls India ‘majestic’ from space | India News

NEW DELHI: India witnessed a deja vu moment on Saturday after Axiom-4 pilot Shubhanshu Shukla interacted with Prime Minister Narendra Modi from International Space Station and claimed that “India looks truly majestic from the space”41 years ago, astronaut Rakesh Sharma, first Indian to go into space, had said “saare jahan se acha Hindustan humara” when…

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Axiom-4 launch: Mission with India’s Shubhanshu Shukla set to take-off today; check launch time | India News

From left to right: ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski of Poland, former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, and Tibor Kapu of Hungary. NEW DELHI: After several postponements, it appears that Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), carrying ISRO astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three other crew members, is finally…

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