“It’s been 41 years since Rakesh Sharma looked down from space and said, ‘Saare Jahan Se Accha.’ Now, another Indian Air Force pilot, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, is writing the next chapter. On June 26, 2025, he became India’s first astronaut to board the International Space Station, as part of the Axiom-4 mission, a historic.
