New Delhi: Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla has reached the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Axiom-4 mission, marking a historic moment for India’s space journey.
The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying Shukla and three other astronauts successfully docked with the ISS on Thursday evening, completing a 28-hour journey from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center.
The docking occurred at 4:03 pm IST, with Mission Control confirming a ‘soft capture’, the term used for the first physical contact between the capsule and the space station.
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Dehradun (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a roadshow in Dehradun on Tuesday, with a large crowd lining both sides of the road to greet him.
The prime minister is in the city to inaugurate the Delhi-Dehradun Expressway.
Before the roadshow, he stopped to pray at the Siddhpeeth Maa Datkali Temple near Dehradun on the border of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
He then embarked on a 12-kilometre road trip to the main event venue, Jaswant Ground, in Dehradun.
A large number of people, including school children, gathered to welcome the prime minister and showered flowers on his convoy.
A massive police force was deployed for security during the prime minister's movement.
Modi will inaugurate the Delhi-Dehradun economic corridor, which will cut the travel time between the two cities to less than half. He will also undertake a review of the wildlife passage on the elevated section of the high-speed expressway in Saharanpur.
The 213-kilometre six-lane access-controlled corridor has been built at a cost of over Rs 12,000 crore.
The corridor traverses through the states of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand, and will reduce travel time between Delhi and Dehradun from over six hours at present to around two and a half hours, according to an official statement.
