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The brand new SpaceX Crew Dragon Capsule that will fly the Private AX-4 Astronaut mission to the ISS can be seen in the Hangar at Launch Pad 39A in Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. | Credit: SpaceX
The crew Dragon Capsule that will fly the next astronaut mission from SpaceX has arrived on the launch platform.
That flight, called AX-4, is planned to lift on a Falcon 9 rocket on 10 June from Historic Pad 39A in Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
SpaceX has just taken a step to meet that timeline: it has delivered the dragon for 39a’s Hangar te Pad, the company announced via X on Thursday (June 5).
The crew of Axiom Space’s AX-4 mission to the international space station. From left to right: Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla, commander Peggy Whitson, mission specialist Sławosz Uznański and Mission Specialist Tibor Kapu. | Credit: Axiom Space
Those capsule-a brand new vehicle, without flights that still transport four people to and from the International Space Station (ISS) for the company Axiom Space established in Houston. It will be the fourth such mission of Axiom, which explains the AX-4 name.
AX-4 will be under the command of Peggy Whitson“ A former NASA Astronaut that currently serves as Axiom’s director of Human SpaceFlight. She holds the American record for most total time spent in space: 675 days.
The three crew members of Whitsons are the Shubhanshu Shukla of India, who is the pilot of AX-4, and Mission Specialists Sławosz Uznański and Tibor Kapu. Uznański, an astronaut from the European space agency, comes from Poland and Kapu comes from Hungary.
No one from both countries, or from India, has ever lived on board the ISS, so AX-4 will break new site.
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The AX-4-astronauts are expected, so spend two weeks on life and working on the ISS, so that approximately 60 different science experiments are performed. Then they go back to earth and eventually splash in the Pacific.
Axiom’s first astronaut mission, AX-1, launched in April 2022. AX-2 and AX-3 followed in May 2023 and January 2024 respectively. All have used SpaceX hardware to get to and from the ISS.
