ISRO sets Axiom-4 mission launch date
ISRO has locked in June 19, 2025, for the launch of the Axiom-4 mission—featuring Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla. The team will lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on a SpaceX Falcon 9. After some earlier technical hiccups, everything's now good to go.
Here's the crew of Axiom-4 mission
Shukla will be piloting alongside veteran astronaut Peggy Whitson (the commander), with Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski from Poland and Tibor Kapu from Hungary as mission specialists. The four will spend about two weeks on the International Space Station, running microgravity experiments and tech demos.
Most research-heavy Axiom mission yet
Axiom-4 is packing in around 60 scientific studies from 31 countries—making it their most research-heavy trip yet. The focus? Pushing boundaries in human health, biology, and materials science through global teamwork in space.