Bengaluru: Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla is expected to ignore the International Space Station (ISS) on July 14 at 4.35 am, completing four of the seven ISRO -led microgravity experiments. Shukla, who is part of the Axiom-4 mission, is working on the other three who are close to completion, ISRO confirmed.Full experiments are – Tardigrades (Bengaluru stress): focusing on existence, revival, reproduction and transcriptal changes in microgravity; Myogenesis: Study of the effect of space on human muscle cell development; Sprouts of fenugreek and moong seeds: with implications for in-arbitas nutrition and food stability, and cyanobacteria: tracking the development of two variants for possible use in closed-loop life support systems. “These experiments are now being packed to return to Earth for further analysis,” ISRO said.There are three experiments to be completed – Microlega: checking its viability and applications in space; Crop seeds: studying development reactions for spaceflight conditions; And the Vyzer display: of which the details are unknown, but the scientist is part of the payload.
