NASA’s stay protection is underway on NASA+ for the arrival of the fourth non-public astronaut mission to the Worldwide Area Station, Axiom Mission 4.
The Dragon spacecraft is forward of schedule and will autonomously dock at roughly 6:18 a.m. EDT Thursday, June 26, to the space-facing port of the house station’s Concord module.
Former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, ISRO (Indian Area Analysis Organisation) astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, ESA (European Area Company) astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski of Poland, and Tibor Kapu of Hungary lifted off at 2:31 a.m. EDT on June 25, on the SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complicated 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Area Middle in Florida.
As soon as docked, the non-public astronauts plan to spend about two weeks aboard the orbiting laboratory, conducting a mission comprised of science, outreach, and industrial actions. The mission is sending the primary ISRO astronaut to the station as a part of a joint effort between NASA and the Indian house company. The non-public mission additionally carries the primary astronauts from Poland and Hungary to remain aboard the house station.
Be taught extra about station actions by following the house station weblog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, in addition to the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.
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