{"id":72202,"date":"2025-06-09T23:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/09\/indian-astronaut-shubhanshu-shukla-join-mission-to-international-space-station"},"modified":"2025-06-09T23:00:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:00:24","slug":"india-to-send-first-astronaut-on-mission-to-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72202","title":{"rendered":"India to send first astronaut on mission to International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shubhanshu Shukla will be first Indian to reach orbit in more than 40 years as country works to join global space race<\/p>\n<p>The first Indian astronaut to visit the International Space Station is due to blast off as part of an effort by the world\u2019s most populous nation to catch up with the US, Russia and China in human space flight missions.<\/p>\n<p>Shubhanshu Shukla, a 39-year-old air force fighter pilot, is one of a four-person mission launching on Tuesday from the US with the private company Axiom Space, which is using a SpaceX capsule.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/09\/indian-astronaut-shubhanshu-shukla-join-mission-to-international-space-station\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shubhanshu Shukla will be first Indian to reach orbit in more than 40 years as country works to join global space raceThe first Indian astronaut to visit the International Space Station is due to blast off as part of an effort by the world\u2019s most popul&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1486,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,299,61,297,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","category-space","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72211,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72202\/revisions\/72211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}