Astronaut Shukla speaks to Isro chief; gives big update on ISS experiments

BENGALURU: Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, presently aboard the International Space Station (ISS) arsenic portion of the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission, spoke with Isro president V Narayanan connected July 6, 2025, Isro said Monday. The telephonic speech focused connected Shukla’s health, ngo progress, and the technological enactment being undertaken successful orbit.“The president inquired astir the experiments being conducted and emphasised the value of elaborate documentation post-mission. He noted that the observations and outcomes from this ngo would supply captious inputs for India’s upcoming quality spaceflight mission, Gaganyaan,” Isro saidSenior Isro officials besides joined the discussion, including VSSC manager S Unnikrishnan Nair, M Mohan, director, LPSC, Padmakumar ES, director, Isro Inertial Systems Unit, M Ganesh Pillai, technological secretary, Isro and N Vedachalam, erstwhile manager of LPSC.The officials interacted with Shukla and discussed assorted aspects of the experiments. Shukla, who has been conducting respective technological studies aboard the ISS nether the Isro–Axiom Spaceflight agreement, shared updates connected the objectives and challenges of the research.Narayanan reaffirmed that Isro continues to supply ngo enactment and recalled his anterior meetings with Shukla to usher and motivate him earlier the launch. He besides noted regular interactions with standby astronaut Prashant Balan Nair to guarantee ngo readiness.Shukla’s observations and inputs are expected to lend importantly to the Gaganyaan mission, which aims to show India’s quality to nonstop astronauts into debased Earth orbit and instrumentality them safely.