Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian astronaut to visit the ISS, along with this crew for the Axiom-4 mission (Ax-4), is set for a splashdown int eh Pacific Ocean off the coast of California as the nosecone of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft 'Grace' has been closed and secured for reentry.

As per NASA, the Dragon spacecraft and Axiom crew returned with over 580 pounds of cargo, including NASA hardware and data from over 60 experiments conducted during their two-week mission.

Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and his three crewmates of the Axiom-4 mission are headed to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS). A splashdown of the Crew Dragon capsule carrying them is expected around 3 PM IST today.

The Ax-4 crew, including Commander Peggy Whitson, Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), ESA project astronaut Slawosz “Suave” Uznanski-Wisniewski of Poland, and HUNOR astronaut Tibor Kapu of Hungary,

Shubhanshu Shukla is the first Indian to step aboard the ISS and only the second Indian to go into space, following Rakesh Sharma's iconic flight in 1984. Shukla, a 39-year-old Indian Air Force officer and test pilot,

Shubhanshu Shukla and his Axiom-4 mission crew are set to return to Earth with the Dragon's capsule splashdown in California at around 3 pm IST.

"For the first time, astronauts from three countries are part of this mission, including Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla... His experience will be invaluable for India's future space missions. After Chandrayaan's success,

The private Ax-4 astronaut mission will head back home to Earth on Monday morning (July 14), and you can watch the action live. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying the four Ax-4 astronauts is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday around 7:05 a.m. EDT (1105 GMT).