NASA will send India's Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla to the space station

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US space agency NASA will send India's Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla to the International Space Station (ISS).  ISRO made the announcement in a statement on last  Friday.  ISRO's Human Space Flight Center (HSFC) has signed a Space Flight Agreement (SFA) with US-based Axiom Space for its upcoming Axiom-4 mission to the ISS, which will have two Indian prime and backup mission pilots.

 Group Captain Shukla will be the primary mission pilot, while another Indian Air Force officer, Group Captain Prashant Balakrishnan Nair will be the backup mission pilot, according to the statement.  Both officers are also known as 'astronauts'.