Shubhanshu Shukla also said that all the information he collected in the past year will be extremely useful to us for India’s missions – Gaganyaan and Bharatiya Antariksh Station.
India’s first astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla described his visit to the International Space Station, as a mission for the entire nation. Shukla said, “… Bharat aaj bhi Antariksh se saare jahaan se achha dikhta hai. Jai Hind, Jai Bharat…”
Highlights of his address
- The benefit of executing a human space mission is more than the training.
- The supplementary knowledge we get just by being there is invaluable. All the information I have collected in the past year will be extremely useful to us for our own missions, Gaganyaan and Bharatiya Antariksh Station.
- Very soon we shall send someone from our capsule, from our rocket and our soil
- The experience is very different from what you learn on the ground.
- The body goes through a lot of changes. The body forgets how to live in gravity after spending 20 days in space.
- “This mission has been extremely successful. We have been able to achieve all of our technical objectives. Execution of such a mission gives a lot of knowledge that cannot be measured or documented…”
