The crew of Houston-based Axiom Area’s subsequent launch to the house station is again on the board.
Axiom’s fourth astronaut mission (Ax-4) to the Worldwide Area Station (ISS) has a brand new launch date. The crew of 4 will liftoff aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket no sooner than June 25, NASA introduced Monday night (June 23).
Liftoff is scheduled for two:31 a.m. EDT (0631 GMT) from Launch Advanced-39A, at NASA’s Kennedy Area Middle, in Florida.. The launch had been indefinitely delayed final week attributable to a leak detected aboard the ISS. No replace was given about that leak in NASA’s announcement of the brand new launch date.
The leak within the station’s Zvezda module is not new, however a change within the stress knowledge that measures the leak’s severity prompted NASA and Axiom to postpone the Ax-4 launch till security may very well be assured.
The Ax-4 crew consists of former NASA astronaut and Axiom’s director of human spaceflight Peggy Whitson. Whitson will function mission commander to Shubhanshu Shukla of India, Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski from Poland, and Tibor Kapu, from Hungary. All three would be the first astronauts from their respecitve nations to launch on a mission to the ISS.
.@NASA, @Axiom_Space, and @SpaceX are focusing on 2:31 a.m. EDT, Wednesday, June 25, for the launch of Axiom Mission 4 to the orbital outpost. https://t.co/kbAFZXZjNvJune 23, 2025
The mission is anticipated to final two weeks. Whereas aboard the orbiting lab, the Ax-4 crew will conduct extra science experiments and STEM (science, expertise, engineering and math) outreach occasions than any earlier Axiom mission — greater than 60 in whole.
If all stays on schedule with Wednesday’s early morning launch, the crew’s Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to dock with the ISS at roughly 7:00 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT) Thursday, June 26. A livestream of the launch and rendezvous will likely be lived stream on Area.com.
