The astronaut mentioned that the area station orbits the Earth 16 occasions a day and that he was privileged to witness 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets on daily basis.
“Proper now, we’re travelling at a pace of 28,000 kilometres per hour. This pace displays how briskly our nation is progressing and now, we should go even past this,” Shukla mentioned.
Shukla reached the Worldwide Area Station on Thursday together with three different astronauts as a part of the industrial Axiom-4 mission for a 14-day keep throughout which the crew will probably be a part of a sequence of science experiments.
“After I noticed India for the primary time from area it appeared a lot bigger and grander than on the map,” Shukla mentioned within the interplay with the Prime Minister.
“You possibly can actually really feel the sense of oneness — there are not any borders, no traces. It feels as if this whole Earth is our residence and we’re all its residents,” Shukla mentioned.