Axiom Mission 4: Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla’s playlist adds Bollywood touch to historic launch with SRK’s Swades song ‘Yuh Hi Chala Chal’

SRK’s Swades song ‘Yuh Hi Chala Chal’ in Axiom-4 Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla’s launch day playlist

As the countdown ended at Nasa’s Kennedy Space Centre and the Axiom Mission 4 crew rocketed towards the International Space Station early Wednesday morning, one song echoed within the thoughts of Indian pilot Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, “Yuh Hi Chala Chal” from Shah Rukh Khan’s 2004 movie Swades.The motivational monitor, composed by AR Rahman and sung by Udit Narayan, Kailash Kher, and Hariharan, was Shukla’s decide for his launch-day playlist, a nod not solely to his roots however to the spirit of perseverance that defines each the film and his mission.

Taking to X (previously Twitter), Axiom Space shared the complete playlist of the Ax-4 crew. While mission commander and spaceflight veteran Peggy Whitson selected Thunder by Imagine Dragons, Shukla’s Bollywood selection stood out, drawing followers’ consideration again on Earth.Launched aboard a SpaceX Dragon from Florida’s Launch Complex 39A at 2:31 am ET (12 midday IST), Ax-4 marks the fourth personal astronaut mission to the ISS. The crew, which incorporates Shukla, Whitson, Poland’s Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski, and Hungary’s Tibor Kapu, is predicted to dock with the station by 4 pm IST on Thursday, June 26.The group will spend up to 14 days in orbit conducting a file 60+ experiments and business actions representing 31 international locations, together with India. Shukla’s presence marks a major collaboration between ISRO and Nasa, with the astronauts donning superior AxEMU spacesuits developed for future Moon missions.In a poetic reflection of Swades, the place an Indian-origin Nasa scientist rediscovers objective in rural India, Shukla now carries that spirit into orbit, proving as soon as once more that science, like music, is aware of no borders.