‘Aaj Ka Bharat Abhi Bhi Sare Jahan Se Acha': Shubhanshu Shukla Gives Axiom-4 Farewell Speech, Says ‘Even Stars Are Attainable'
The crew is scheduled to undock from the ISS on July 14 at around 4:35 pm (IST), with splashdown expected in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California at approximately 3 pm (IST) on Tuesday, July 15.
Group Captain Shukla became the first Indian astronaut to visit the ISS.
The Ax-4 crew includes Commander Peggy Whitson, Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), European Space Agency (ESA) project astronaut Sławosz 'Suave' Uznański-Wiśniewski of Poland, and HUNOR (Hungarian to Orbit) astronaut Tibor Kapu.
'Sare Jahan Se...'
"Today's India looks ambitious from space, today's India looks fearless, today's India looks confident, today's India appears full of pride, and today's India still looks sare jahan se acha,' the Astronaut said.
Shukla's Farewell Speech
'It has been a fantastic journey for me,' Shukla said about his stay at the ISS, and added that he was taking with him a lot of memories and learnings that he will further share.
'It has been a fantastic journey. Now this journey is coming to an end. But the journey of our human space flight is very long. It is also difficult,' he said.
'But let me assure you that if we decide, then even stars are attainable,' he said, quoting a Sanskrit phrase. Shukla also expressed his gratitude to the people who made the mission possible.
Ax-4 Mission | Farewell Ceremony https://t.co/QGDDfXD84R — Axiom Space (@Axiom_Space) July 13, 2025
Axiom Mission 4 was launched on June 25 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. The Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the ISS on June 26 at 4:05 pm IST, ahead of schedule, connecting to the space-facing port of the station's Harmony module.
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To ensure seamless communication, the astornauts completed training on handover protocols and emergency crew exchanged high-priority cargo and emergency equipment between Dragon and the space station, including payloads, essential supplies, and safety crew members started preparing for their research studies. They also started transferring samples to designated crew started with their diverse portfolio of experiments that could shape the future of medicine, agriculture, and space Shubhanshu Shukla started with his research on Life Sciences Glovebox (LSG) to uncover the biological pathways behind skeletal muscle degradation in space. 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He grew three strains of microalgae and studied the impact of microgravity on the growth, metabolism, and genetic crew together wrapped the second session of the Cerebral Hemodynamics study, using ultrasound technology to monitor blood flow in the brain under microgravity contributed to the Saudi Space Agency's Microgravity continued doing the microalgae experiment to study organisms that could one day serve as sustainable sources of food, fuel, or oxygen for long-duration missions. He also performed a microscopy to examine muscle cell development in space. The Indian astronaut also documented the Voyager Tardigrades experiment, which investigates how hardy microscopic creatures survive and reproduce in crew conducted an experiment to study the effects of microgravity on bone health, focusing on bone loss during flight and recovery post-spaceflight. 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All the crew members have been fully dedicated to their packed schedule of scientific research, technology demonstrations, and global Peggy completed the final imaging sessions of 3D tumor organoids for the Cancer in LEO Shukla documented the myogenesis investigation, he also deployed and stowed samples for the Space Micro Algae also irrigated crop seeds as part of the Sprouts project to explore how spaceflight affects seed germination and plant goal of the Sprouts project is to advance our understanding of sustainable crop production in space for future long-duration mission crew together continued research on Voyager Displays experiment and Rad Nano astronaut Shukla redeployed a culture bag for the Space Micro Algae experiment to study food production in four astronauts contributed to Wireless Acoustics project. This project aims to test a wearable acoustic monitor that is designed to measure sound levels aboard the space station. Alongside this, a crew member underwent an ultrasound scan to track changes in cardiovascular and balance systems for the Telemetric Health AI experiment under Axiom mission was the exploration of potential of nanomaterials through the Mxene in LEO study. This would help in building next generation of wearable health Peggy continued to support her Ax-4 crewmates through another day of microgravity research across various continues his research on food, photosynthesis, microorganisms and sprouts like methi and mission also aims to collect data for Cerebral Hemodynamics study, which examines how the cardiovascular system adapts to Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla and crew shared glimpses of research with Axiom Space Chief Scientist Dr. Lucie Low. 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To celebrate the end of the successful mission, the four astronauts participated in a traditional farewell ceremony alongside NASA's Expedition and crew spent the final day on orbiting laboratory packing and making final preparations for SpaceX and NASA announce live coverage of hatch closure and Ax-4's undocking from mission is scheduled to undock from ISS in Dragon coverage for hatch closure and the Ax-4 crew's departure will begin at 2:00 PM undocking is scheduled for 4:35 PM Dragon spacecraft will travel for 22.5 hours for its journey back to Earth. The crew is set to splash down off the coast of California at approximately 3:01 PM IST(With inputs from Axiom Space, ISS, ISRO and SpaceX)
