During a live broadcast from space, Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla introduced “Joy,” a soft swan toy floating beside him aboard the ISS. Serving as a Zero-G indicator, the swan also holds deep ...

Toy swan Joy floats in Axiom-4 spacecraft, symbolizing cultural unity and wisdom on international space mission.

An Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla's son chose a soft white swan named Joy to accompany the Axiom-4 mission as a zero-gravity indicator. This tradition, started by Yuri Gagarin, involves toys ...

Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three others aboard the Dragon spacecraft ahead of the launch of the Axiom Mission 4 to the International Space Station, at the Kennedy Space Centre, in Florida ...

The mission has generated a huge interest in India as it comes 41 years after cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian to fly to space aboard a Russian Soyuz in 1984.