Home cooked meals, quiet family time and sharing stories from earth and beyond... that's the kind of homecoming Kamna Shukla has planned for her astronaut husband Shubhanshu Shukla, the toast of the n

The Dragon spacecraft, which undocked from the ISS after the 20-day mission, is expected to splash down off the coast of San Diego, California, around 3pm IST, today

Shukla’s 20-day mission to the ISS on board SpaceX equipment tagged along a significant ticket price of approximately Rs 550 crores.

Shubhanshu Shukla is undergoing a series of post-mission procedures and is expected to return to India by August 17, said Union Minister Jitendra Singh.

“Dragon and the @Axiom_Space Ax-4 crew are on track to reenter Earth’s atmosphere and splash down off the coast of San Diego at ~2:31 a.m. PT tomorrow. Dragon will also announce its arrival with a brief sonic boom prior to splashing down in the Pacific Ocean,” SpaceX posted.

Shukla, an Indian Air Force pilot, became the first Indian to visit the $150 billion orbiting space laboratory and only the second Indian to travel to space since Rakesh Sharma’s historic mission in 1984.