The Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) crew lifts off to the Worldwide Area Station atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from launchpad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Area Heart in Florida, USA, on 25 June at 02:31 EDT, native time (07:31 BST/08:31 CEST).
ESA challenge astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski travels to his new residence in house within the Dragon spacecraft. Sławosz is a part of Axiom Mission 4 alongside Peggy Whitson (USA), Shubhanshu Shukla (India) and Tibor Kapu (Hungary).
Throughout their journey on the Dragon spacecraft to the orbital outpost Sławosz and Tibor will function mission specialists, Shubhanshu would be the crew’s pilot and Peggy will likely be commander.
The Polish challenge astronaut is the second of a brand new era of European astronauts to fly on a business human spaceflight alternative with Axiom Area. Sponsored by the Polish authorities and supported by ESA, the Polish Ministry of Economic Development and Technology (MRiT), and the Polish Space Agency (POLSA), the mission will embrace an formidable technological and scientific programme with a number of experiments led by ESA and proposed by the Polish house trade. The mission, generally known as Ignis will formally start as soon as Sławosz enters the Station.
Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski was chosen in November 2022 as a member of the ESA astronaut reserve and joined ESA as a challenge astronaut on 1 September 2023 for coaching familiarisation at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany.
