He's anticipated to be again within the capital to take part within the Nationwide House Day celebrations on August 22-23.
Shukla posted on Instagram a smiling {photograph} of himself sitting in an aeroplane, and stated in its caption that he was crammed with combined feelings as he left the US and couldn't wait to return to India to share his experiences with everybody again dwelling.
“As I sit on the aircraft to come back again to India, I've a mixture of feelings operating via my coronary heart. I really feel unhappy leaving a unbelievable group of individuals behind who had been my family and friends for the previous one yr throughout this mission. I'm additionally enthusiastic about assembly all my pals, household and everybody within the nation for the primary time submit mission. I suppose that is what life is — all the pieces suddenly,” Shukla stated within the submit.
“Having acquired unimaginable love and help from everybody throughout and after the mission, I can not wait to come back again to India to share my experiences with all of you. Goodbyes are arduous however we have to preserve transferring in life. As my commander Peggy Whitson fondly says, ‘the one fixed in spaceflight is change'. I consider that applies to life as properly,” he stated.Shukla additionally added, “I suppose on the finish of the day -‘Yun hello chala chal rahi – jeevan gaadi hai samay pahiya',” recalling the tune from the Bollywood film Swades that was on his playlist simply earlier than he launched into the Axiom-4 mission to the ISS on June 25 from the US.Shukla and his backup astronaut Prashanth Nair participated within the Independence Day celebrations on the Indian Consulate in Houston on Friday.Addressing the 79th Independence Day celebrations on the Pink Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday stated India was growing its personal area station and recalled that Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla has returned from an area mission.
“Our Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla has returned from the area station. Within the coming days, he's returning to India,” Modi had stated.
Shukla was a part of the Axiom-4 personal area mission that lifted off from Florida on June 25 and docked on the Worldwide House Station on June 26. He returned to Earth on July 15.
Together with three different astronauts — Peggy Whitson (US), Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski (Poland), and Tibor Kapu (Hungary) — Shukla performed over 60 experiments and 20 outreach periods in the course of the 18-day mission.
