New Delhi: Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station, piloted by Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla with three other crew members, has been delayed and will now be launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on June 8 at 6:41 pm IST.
The mission was earlier scheduled for launch on May 29.
The announcement was made by Axiom Space, a US-based commercial human spaceflight firm, and NASA.
“After reviewing the @Space_Station flight schedule, NASA and its partners are shifting launch opportunities for several upcoming missions. The new targeted no-earlier-than-launch opportunities, pending operational readiness, are: Axiom Mission 4: 9:11 am EDT, Sunday, ,” NASA said in a post on X.
Shukla’s travel to space, onboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, comes four decades after Rakesh Sharma’s iconic spaceflight onboard Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft in 1984.
Besides Shukla, the Ax-4 crew includes members from Poland and Hungary, marking each nation’s first mission to the International Space Station in history and the second government-sponsored human spaceflight mission in over 40 years.
