Astronaut becomes first Indian to set foot on ISS

Shubhanshu Shukla, a 39-year-old group captain in the Indian Air Force, boarded the International Space Station on Thursday, becoming the first Indian to do so and becoming only the second Indian in space since Rakesh Sharma in 1984.

He traveled to the ISS as part of the Axiom-4 Mission, operated privately by SpaceX, which lifted off on Wednesday.

The mission places Shukla on a two-week science run, working alongside U.S. astronaut Commander Peggy Whitson and astronauts from Poland and Hungary.

Shukla called the view from space beyond expectations.