The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying India’s Shubhanshu Shukla and three different astronauts on the Axiom-4 mission efficiently splashed down off the coast of Southern California at 3:01 pm IST.
Splashdown of Dragon confirmed – welcome again to Earth, @AstroPeggy, Shux, @astro_slawosz, and Tibi!
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 15, 2025
The crew had undocked from the Concord module of the Worldwide Area Station at round 4:35 pm IST on July 14.
Group Captain Shukla, a pilot with the Indian Air Pressure, has develop into solely the second Indian to journey to house—following Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma’s historic flight in 1984—and the primary Indian to go to the $150 billion Worldwide Area Station.
The landmark mission, organized by non-public house agency Axiom Area in collaboration with NASA and ISRO, reportedly price India round $70 million. Axiom Area said that after spending roughly 433 hours in house—finishing 18 days and 288 orbits round Earth, masking almost 12.2 million kilometres—the Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) crew has formally begun its journey again house.