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Sharma to Shukla: Dr Kapoor on India’s space leap

Bengaluru, June 25 (UNI) Forty years ago, Rakesh Sharma looked out of a Soyuz capsule and famously told Prime Minister Indira Gandhi that India looked saare jahan se achha from space. Today, India is preparing to write the next chapter in that celestial story — not from a Cold War command center in Moscow, but from a cutting-edge, private mission led by American innovators and supported by international partners.
Shubhanshu Shukla, one of the four astronauts trained under India’s ambitious Gaganyaan programme, is set to soar into orbit aboard the Axiom-4 mission, a collaboration between Axiom Space, SpaceX, and NASA. If all goes to plan, he will soon be en route to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Falcon 9 rocket, joining an exclusive club of Indians who have left Earth behind — but this time, under entirely new conditions.
“This is a very complex process — millions of systems must work perfectly together for a mission to succeed and be safe,” Dr. R.C. Kapoor, a veteran space scientist who has witnessed the evolution of India’s space programme from its nascent days, told UNI in an interview.
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