Sunday, June 1, 2025

The Axiom-4 mission.

India's return to human spaceflight

The $64 million Axiom-4 (Ax-4) Mission - a collaboration involving axiom Space, NASA, ISRO and European Space Agency is scheduled to be launched on 08 Jun 2025 at 1841 hrs (IST) from the Launch Complex 39A of the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, which will proceed to the International Space Station and dock with it.

The crew consists of :-

      * Peggy Whitson                                        Commander, Commercial Mission
      * Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla        The Mission Pilot
      * Slawosz Uzna ski-Wi niewski (Spain)    Mission Specialist
      * Tibor Kapu (Hungary)                             Mission Specialist   

They will enter the ISS for a 14-day, conducting experiments and scientific studies.


Tailpiece.

Got up at our usual time, the chores and we opened up the house for the day.

My walk outside. The maid was at work; a lazy Sunday.

Padmakumar and Rema had fetched up at a half past 6.

A boisterous dinner.

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