{"id":354872,"date":"2025-08-18T19:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/354872\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T19:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:12:12","slug":"pm-modi-meets-shubhanshu-shukla-astronaut-shows-earth-photos-clicked-from-iss-gifts-axiom-4-mission-patch-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/354872\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi meets Shubhanshu Shukla; astronaut shows Earth photos clicked from ISS, gifts Axiom-4 mission patch | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PM NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla<\/a>, pilot of the Axiom-4 Space Mission to the International Space Station (ISS), at his Lok Kalyan Marg residence.PM Modi<\/a> welcomed Shukla with a warm hug and walked alongside him with his arm on the astronaut\u2019s shoulder, highlighting the significance of the moment.<\/p>\n

Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla Returns To India, Receives Heroic Welcome At Delhi Airport<\/p>\n

During the meeting, Shukla presented the Axiom-4 mission patch to the Prime Minister and shared photographs of the Earth taken from the ISS. Shukla, who returned to India early Sunday, had received a rousing welcome at the Delhi airport.<\/p>\n

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Do you think India’s space program will advance significantly with missions like Axiom-4?<\/p>\n

After the meeting, PM Modi took to X and posted, \u201cHad a great interaction with Shubhanshu Shukla. We discussed a wide range of subjects including his experiences in space, progress in science & technology as well as India\u2019s ambitious Gaganyaan<\/a> mission. India is proud of his feat.\u201dEarlier in the day, Shukla was honoured in the Lok Sabha during a special discussion celebrating his milestone mission.Shukla completed an 18-day Axiom-4 mission on July 15, conducting over 60 experiments with three other crew members aboard the ISS\u2014a key step towards India\u2019s human spaceflight ambitions under the Gaganyaan programme.Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju<\/a> said the special discussion in the House was aimed at celebrating Shukla\u2019s achievements and India\u2019s growing space capabilities. \u201cOur hero astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla has returned home after a successful mission to the ISS. Parliament will honour him with a special discussion on his historic milestone and India\u2019s journey towards Viksit Bharat,\u201d Rijiju posted on X. He urged Opposition MPs to participate in the debate in the same spirit as they had during Operation Sindoor, though they chose to boycott, causing repeated disruptions.Breaking ranks, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor praised Shukla on social media. \u201cSince the Opposition are not participating in the special discussion, let me say how proud all Indians are of the recent mission of Commander Shubhanshu Shukla to the ISS. It served as a stepping stone to our nation\u2019s human spaceflight program, Gaganyaan,\u201d Tharoor wrote.PM Modi had earlier lauded Shukla in his Independence Day address, reiterating India\u2019s plan to build its own space station. ISRO Chairman V Narayanan said the first module is expected to be placed in orbit by 2028, with the station fully operational by 2035.Union MoS for science and technology Jitendra Singh criticised Opposition MPs for not acknowledging the achievement. \u201cYour anger can be with the government and the BJP, but it is surprising you can be angry with an astronaut. He is not linked to any political party. You are angry with the earth, you are angry with the sky and today you seem to be angry with space as well,\u201d Singh said.Shukla\u2019s journey included nearly a year of intensive training in the US before being selected for the Axiom-4 mission. On his return, he expressed gratitude to the nation and said he would share his experiences with students and scientists across India. He is also set to attend National Space Day events later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, pilot of the Axiom-4 Space Mission…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[40117,1500,53484,10818,730,10816,10817,125194,11366,125195,24066,70,19065,413,5685,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-354872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-axiom-4-mission","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-gaganyaan","11":"tag-google-news","12":"tag-india","13":"tag-india-news","14":"tag-india-news-today","15":"tag-indias-space-ambitions","16":"tag-international-space-station","17":"tag-kiren-rijiju","18":"tag-pm-modi","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-shubhanshu-shukla","21":"tag-space","22":"tag-today-news","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115051360690984763","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}