India has celebrated another step on its mission to become a space power, after Shubhanshu Shukla became the first astronaut from the country to blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) Wednesday.

A day after Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla became only the second Indian to travel to space, the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission he's piloting is due to dock with the International Space Station (ISS).Ax-4's multi-country crew,

The first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary have arrived at the International Space Station, ferried there by SpaceX on a private flight.