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THE AXIOM-4 MISSION
The New Indian Express Chennai
|June 01, 2025
INDIA'S RETURN TO HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT
tre in Florida. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, which will proceed to the International Space Station (ISS), and dock with it.
On docking, the commander of this commercial mission, Peggy Whitson, a former NASA astronaut and director of human spaceflight at Axiom Space; ISRO astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who is the mission pilot, and two mission specialists, European Space Agency (ESA) project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wieniewski of Poland and Tibor Kapu of Hungary, will enter the ISS for a 14-day stay, conducting experiments and scientific studies.
The experiments aim to advance our understanding of microgravity and its effects on various biological processes.
The Ax-4 Mission will be led by private company Axiom Space to highlight the growing scope of commercial entities in space exploration.
The four mission astronauts will conduct about 60 scientific studies and activities, representing 31 countries, including the US, India, Poland, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Nigeria, UAE, and nations across Europe.
This story is from the June 01, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Chennai.
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