Just days after anticipation built around Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla’s participation in Axiom Mission 4, the launch has been postponed again.
About Axiom Mission 4:
Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) is the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS), organized by Axiom Space in collaboration with NASA, SpaceX, and ISRO.
Objectives:
Enable commercial activities in low Earth orbit, including space tourism and private research.
Demonstrate the feasibility of commercial space stations as platforms for business and science.
Strengthen international collaboration in space exploration.
Conduct scientific experiments in microgravity, focusing on materials science, biology, Earth observation, and life sciences.
Launch Vehicle & Capsule: First flight of Crew Dragon C213—the fifth and final new Dragon capsule—to be launched atop a Falcon‑9 Block 5 from LC‑39A, Kennedy Space Centre.
Mission Timeline: Originally set for early June 2025, the mission was moved multiple times— then again postponed on June 11, due to the LOx leak, which caused further delay.
Crew (4 total):
Peggy Whitson (USA)
Shubhanshu Shukla (India)
Sławosz Uznański‑Wiśniewski (Poland)
Mission Specialist: Tibor Kapu (Hungary)
Significance:
Marks India’s return to human spaceflight after 41 years, since Rakesh Sharma’s 1984 mission.
First government-sponsored flights to the ISS for India, Poland, and Hungary in over four decades.
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