Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla is set to travel to the International Space Station next month as part of an Axiom-4 mission, four decades after Rakesh Sharma’s iconic spaceflight onboard Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft.ISRO is set to launch the NISAR satellite – developed jointly with NASA – in June on board the GSLV-Mark 2 rocket, Singh said, adding that in July the space agency will put in orbit BlueBird Block-2 satellites of US-based AST SpaceMobile Inc. using the heavy-lift LVM-3 rock.A decorated test pilot with the Indian Air Force, Group Captain Shukla was shortlisted under ISRO’s Human Spaceflight Program and is among the top contenders for the Gaganyaan mission. Is India catching up with space missions ?
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