“He did this for world…” Jitendra Singh hails Shubhanshu Shukla on his return from Axiom-4 mission

Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh praised Shukla’s contributions, stating what Shubhanshu has done for the world is truly unmatched. Speaking to the media, he said, “Today at around 4:30 PM, they will be undocked. The most important thing is that the experiments that Shubhanshu has done there, related to life sciences or plantation, the kits for that were provided from our Department of Biotechnology and our institutes like the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and IIT... Indigenous kits, indigenous experiments, done by indigenous people, which will benefit and be used by other countries of the world... All the experiments were never imagined to date. On India's initiative, Shubhanshu has done this for the whole world... For the first time, experiments of Indian origin have been done by an Indian person for the world..." The Axiom-4 mission, featuring Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station today, July 14.