IAF fighter pilot Shubhanshu Shukla will supervise the critical docking phase of Axiom-4 Mission as the NASA spacecraft will make the rendezvous, line up and approach the Space Station for a smooth capture.

It began with a thunderous roar from Cape Canaveral and ended, about 28 hours later, with a gentle, precise docking around 400km above Earth as Dragon capsule Grace latched onto the International Space Station (ISS) at 4.

Shubhanshu Shukla and his fellow astronauts, including veteran Peggy Whitson, have successfully reached the International Space Station as part of the Axiom-4 mission.