S Private Crewed Launch To ISS Is Finally About To Happen
Reference: See here Following a series of delays, SpaceX, Axiom Space, and NASA are now targeting 2:31 a.m. ET on Wednesday, June 25, (11:31 p.m. PT on Tuesday, June 24) for the launch of Axiom Space⁘s fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The new schedule was announced on Monday night.
The Ax-4 mission will lift off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with the four-person crew traveling on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft after launching on a Falcon 9 rocket.
The Crew Dragon is expected to dock with the orbital outpost at about 7 a.m. ET (4 a.m. PT) on Thursday, June 26.
The Ax-4 crew comprises Commander Peggy Whitson, a veteran NASA astronaut and Axiom Space⁘s director of human spaceflight; Shubhanshu Shukla from the Indian Space Research Organisation, making his first spaceflight; S⁘awosz Uzna⁘ski-Wi⁘niewski, a European Space Agency project astronaut from Poland and on his first trip to space; and Tibor Kapu, representing the Hungarian Space Office, also on his first orbital voyage.
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