The family members of Group Captain and astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla are overjoyed with happiness. On 25 June, Wednesday, the family of Shubhanshu Shukla, who is heading to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Axiom-4 Mission, was welcomed at the school he attended in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow.

The Axiom-4 Mission, being piloted by Group Captain Shukla, took off from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, US. The mission is being piloted by India's Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla. The crew is travelling to the International Space Station (ISS) on a new SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on the company's Falcon 9 rocket.

As reported by ANI, Group Captain and astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla’s mother, Asha, said, "...We cannot describe this in words... We are not scared (for Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla) at all... We are delighted; we are very proud."