Ahead of the launch of SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket, part of a commercial mission by Axiom Space, the crew revealed their specially-curated music playlist for the day in a post on X.
Shukla’s music playlist featured the ode to life song in the Ashutosh Gowarikar’s Shah Rukh Khan movie which quite coincidentally centres around a NASA scientist.
Penned by Javed Akhtar and composed by A R Rahman, it is sung by Kailash Kher, Hariharan and Udit Narayan.
The playlist also features tracks curated by the rest of the crew: Commander Peggy Whitson (USA) has picked “Thunder” by Imagine Dragons, Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski (Poland) has gone with “Supermonce”, a Polish track, and Tibor Kapu (Hungary) has listed “Bvhely”, a traditional Hungarian song.
Born in Lucknow, Shukla is a celebrated Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot and Gaganyaan astronaut. SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 12.01 PM IST. PTI COR BK MIN MIN