Axiom-4 Mission carrying India’s Shubhanshu Shukla postponed due to bad weather

In a social media post, ISRO Chairman V Narayanan said that the targeted time of the launch is 5:30 PM IST tomorrow.

This historic mission will carry four astronauts from the US, India, Poland, and Hungary to the International Space Station (ISS) for a 14-day scientific mission in Low Earth Orbit (LEO).

The four astronauts on the Axiom-4 (AX-4) mission are Subhanshu Shukla from India, Sławosz Uznański from Poland, Tibor Kapu from Hungary, and Peggy Whitson from the US.

The astronauts will carry out around 60 scientific studies from 31 countries, including several groundbreaking research projects led by ISRO. 

Akashvani Correspondent reports that the crew will fly aboard the SpaceX Dragon that will be launched by the Falcon 9 rocket, which will be launched from Launch Pad 39 at Kennedy Space Centre from Cape Canaveral.

This will be the first flight of the Dragon Spacecraft and the Falcon 9 booster’s second.

After lifting off and completing its task, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket will return to Earth and land at Landing Zone 1 in Florida.

Shubhanshu Shukla, in a video released by Axiom Space, said that he felt extremely fortunate to be part of something much bigger.

The mission aims to support both current space research and future long-term space missions, while also helping Earth-based studies through data collected in orbit.

The crew will perform over 60 scientific experiments in human health, earth studies, life sciences, biology and material research.