White nights – neither sun rises nor sets: Shubhanshu Shukla shares surreal experience of the International Space Station |
For most of us, the rhythm of day and night is constant, defined by sunrise and sunset. But for astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, India’s first spacefarer aboard the International Space Station (ISS) during the Axiom-4 mission, that rhythm was dramatically altered. Instead of the familiar cycle of sunrises and sunsets seen from orbit, Shukla encountered a…