indiagazette.com · Space · 2026-08-24
Celebrating National Space Day would create more awareness , says ISRO mission
On the occasion of National Space Day, fashion designer Manish Tripathi, who custom-designed the official Indian mission patch worn by ISRO astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla during the ISRO-NASA-supported Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) to the International Space Station, said that celebrating the day would create greater awareness about space and careers in the sector. Speaking to ANI, Tripathi said, "Certainly, it's a wonderful achievement for all the countrymen, for all our Bharatiya [Indian] people. The long-due recognition for the space sector is coming through, and I'm really glad and really happy that today I could speak about National Space Day. It's a great day for all of us." "I would say that celebrating such a day would certainly create more awareness about space, about careers in space, and the generations to come would explore this further," he added. Recalling his experience of designing the mission patch for the Axiom-4 mission,
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