Group captain Shubhhu Shukla can be astronaut number 634, but it is away from the only Indian drawing value from the Axiom-4 mission. While Shukla revolved the Earth at the International Space Station, a contingent of ISRO engineers and doctors posted in Houston is immersed in a parallel mission – not in a weightlessness, but in cool learning. For them, this is not just a spectacle; It is a region laboratory where decades preparations for the future of India’s human spacecraft are turning into real, touching understanding.“This is the first time we are looking at these tasks closely – now, all this was just a documentation,” a senior ISRO official said that closely joined the mission. “For us, this hands-on exposure is valuable. Add that science will be in ISS, and it only gets better.”A part of the ISRO delegation is eight engineers, ISRO doctors and a doctor of the IAF Institute of Aerospace Medicine (IAM), who was involved in early screening and selection of astronauts for Gaganan, India.On Thursday, the team gained a rare observation experience in Houston’s Mission Control of Johnson Space Center (JSC) and Axiom. These individuals are not only shadowed by American counterparts; They embedded supervisors in a restricted environment, where a lot of human spacecraft reveals.For example, the day the Dragon Capsule was doc with ISS, the ISRO team was not allowed to see Live only in JSC. “We were on the audio loop, listening to the mission control discussions. We saw what the control operations did, how many docking efforts were made, what kind of error parameters were being monitored. These are not things that you will find in any public webcast or document,” the official said. While NASA publishes mission sequence, real-time decision calls, procedural liquidity, and console data are usually inaccessible to the outside world-until in this case, in this case, you are a partner with shoes on the ground.ISRO’s reach will be deepened. “They are setting up a dedicated conference room for us, where live console data will flow,” the official said. More studies are being done than docking. With the plan to carry out several docking options in the coming years with Gaganian – and with the future space station of India on the horizon – ISRO engineers are willing to absorb the choreography of Mission Oms in the actual environment. “We have done a docking so far. But a space station will need many. From inside NASA’s system we need to learn important learns that we cannot repeat in India yet.”Medical operations are also subject to ISRO Lens. The agency’s two doctors are part of the Houston team and are already participating in alternative-day medical conferences along with Shukla in ISS. The official said, “This is a private medical conference link – which is used regularly by NASA and Axiom – and our doctors are now involved in that process. It is that they will learn the medical rhythm of the human spacecraft.” As a part of India’s learning stage in the spacecraft rehabilitation and post-flight recovery, Dr. will also inspect Shukla’s recurrence stages, soon after his return and during the follow-up weeks in the US.The team is divided between Axiom’s control center and JSC based on operation. While JSC largely handles docking and mission dynamics, Axiom crew crew management, flight surgeon coordination and private astronaut interfaces. The mission center of the Axiom is the place where people from Hungary and Poland are also deployed, but because they do not have NASA compromise like ISRO, they do not use JSC like the Indian Space Agency. The Shahs floats, digs ISRO to see and learn in Houston.
