India • Jul 01, 2025

Astronaut Shukla to engage with students, ISRO engineers

This Friday, Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla will connect with students and ISRO engineers straight from the International Space Station—using ham radio!
The special event, set up by ARISS, is all about sparking excitement for science and space.
If you're curious, it's happening via telebridge at Bengaluru's U R Rao Satellite Centre at 10:17 UTC.

TL;DR

Shukla on Axiom-4 mission

Besides chatting with Earth, Shukla is on a 14-day Axiom-4 mission with three other astronauts and working on some pretty cool experiments.
He's helping study microalgae as a future food source for long space trips, plus using VR and AI tools to see how space affects the brain and heart—research that could help both astronauts in orbit and people back home.