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.

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.