Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla and Congress leader Udit Raj have given a peculiar statement on the return of the crew today. He said that when Rakesh Sharma was first sent, the people of SC, ST, OBC were not so educated. This time, I think it was the turn to send a Dalit. He said that it is not that NASA took an exam and then selected. Shukla ji could be sent to any Dalit or OBC.
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Astronaut Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three other people involved in the Axiom-4 mission will return to Earth on Tuesday after 18 days of stay at the International Space Station (ISS) and return to Earth and will land in San Diego, California. Shukla, Commander Paigi Whiteson, Mission expert Poland’s Slavose Uznansky-Visnivsky and Hungary’s Tibor Kapu, Dragon ‘Grace’, was separated from the space station at 4:45 pm on Monday evening. SpaceX, a company operating the Axiom-4 mission, said in a post on ‘X’, “Dragon spacecraft and Axiom Space AX-4 members will re-enter the earth’s Waymander at 3:00 pm Indian time on Tuesday and will enter the water on the coast.”
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It states that the spacecraft will also announce its arrival with a brief sound explosion before landing into the Pacific Ocean. As soon as the spacecraft re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere, it is expected to be ‘de-arbit burns’ over the Pacific Ocean at 2.7 pm today. When a spacecraft is revolving around the Earth and has to be brought back to the earth, it is necessary to reduce its speed so that it can get out of the orbit and enter the Earth’s atmosphere. To reduce this speed, the thrusters (small engines) of the spacecraft are fired in a certain time and direction.
#WATCH | Axiom 4 Mission | On the return of Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla and the crew today, Congress leader Udit Raj says, “… When Rakesh Sharma was sent earlier, the SC, ST, OBC people were not that educated. This time, I think it was the turn to send a Dalit… It is not… pic.twitter.com/iPCAfdt7iQ
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