The city of Nawabs has been decked up for a grand welcome to the city boy, Group Captain Subhanshu Shukla, the first Indian astronaut to return from the International Space Station, here tomorrow morning.
Lucknow Municipal Corporation will organize a historic celebration on the day, while a victory parade has been planned from Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport to Gomti Nagar Extension.
The Opposition parties, including the Congress, resorted to sloganeering and staged a walkout.
Shukla became the first ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) astronaut to board the International Space Station.
Shukla’s flight, alongside a four-member crew aboard the Dragon spacecraft developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, marks India’s quiet return to human spaceflight after more than four decades.
