President Droupadi Murmu on Monday conferred India's highest peacetime gallantry award, Ashoka Chakra, to Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who created history by becoming the first Indian to set foot on the International Space Station (ISS). The President presented the award to Shukla at the Republic Day celebrations at the Kartavya Path, the centrepiece boulevard of the national capital.
On the occasion of Republic Day 2026, President Droupadi Murmu confers India’s highest peacetime gallantry award, the Ashok Chakra, upon Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who made history as the first Indian to set foot on the International Space Station. Group Captain Shukla has… pic.twitter.com/2jRraeYFja
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) January 26, 2026
In June last year, Shukla became the second Indian to have gone to space and the first to visit the ISS as part of the historic Axiom-4 mission. His 18-day space odyssey came 41 years after cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma flew aboard the Russian Soyuz-11 space mission.
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