India, Poland and Hungary are back in human spaceflight. SpaceX launched the countries’ first astronauts in more than 40 years Wednesday, sending them on a chartered flight to the International Space Station.

India is brimming with pride after Shubhanshu Shukla became the first astronaut from the country to blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) Wednesday, in a boost to the South Asian giant’s bid to become a space power.

A day after Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla became only the second Indian to travel to space, the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission he's piloting is due to dock with the International Space Station (ISS). Ax-4's multi-country crew,