All about ISS, where Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla will spend 2 weeks – The Times of India

As India’s Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla embarks on his historic journey to the International Space Station, it’s worth understanding the orbital laboratory where he and his Axiom-4 crewmates will live and work for the next two weeks.Hovering silently above us at an altitude of approx 408km, ISS is a symbol of global scientific cooperation, engineering…

After bad weather, liquid oxygen leak stalls Shubhanshu Shukla-piloted Axiom-4 lift-off – The Times of India

CAPE CANAVERAL (FLORIDA): Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla’s lift-off to Indian space history will have to wait. As D-Day dawned in India, Elon Musk-owned SpaceX announced that the Axiom-4 launch had been indefinitely deferred, citing a LOX (liquid oxygen) leak in the Falcon-9 rocket that engineers were unable to troubleshoot immediately.Axiom-4 was to start its journey…