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Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla made history on Wednesday as he launched to the International Space Station alongside three others on a commercial mission by Axiom Space. The Axiom-4 mission lifted off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center at 12.01 pm IST, heading for the ISS amid celebrations at
The crew plans to spend two weeks aboard the orbiting laboratory.
Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams is set to return home after nine months on the orbiting lab.
Extensive fuel leak repairs could require that the rocket be hauled off the pad and back into its hangar, possibly pushing the flight into October.
She will be part of three expeditions – 59, 60, and 61 – during her current first space flight, NASA said in a statement.
The much-anticipated milestone for NASA was achieved during a relatively routine mission to swap faulty batteries on the station's exterior.
She made important breakthroughs at work but the credit was given to other people. Katherine loved her job, she took everything in her stride.
Koch still has six weeks to go before returning to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS).
Launched on February 9, the spacecraft completed its first close pass of the Sun in mid-June.
The shared magnetic field situation, with Earth and Moon's magnetospheres joined, could have persisted from 4.1 to 3.5 billion years ago, according to the NASA-led study.
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