The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced on Friday that the Axiom-4 mission set to take Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla into space has been delayed once again. This is the sixth time when the Axiom-4 mission is delayed. The mission was re -determined after a technical snag on 22 June, and NASA would soon announce a new date for launch.
The International Space Station (ISS) said in a statement, “NASA, Axiom Space and Spacex continued to review the launch opportunities for Axiom Mission 4.
The space agency requires additional time to continue evaluating international space station operations after recent repair work in most segments of the Orbital Laboratory Zvezda service module, stated in the statement.
Due to the interconnected and interdependent systems of the space station, NASA wants to ensure that the station is ready for additional crew members, and the agency is taking the required time to review the data, the Axiom Space statement said.
Earlier, the AXIOM-4 mission launch for June 19 was delayed by 22 June due to technical snag in SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Spacecraft.
Through the Axiom-4 launch, Indian astronaut Shubhhu Shukla is at the tail of history, after Rakesh Sharma in space, is only ready to be another Indian to enter space. Shukla will serve as a pilot for the mission, and will help ISS scientists to carry out several experiments in space.
AXIOM Mission 4 will be commanded by NASA Whitson, former NASA astronaut and now AXIOM Space’s Human Spaceflight Director Paigi Whitson. Shubhanshu Shukla will work as a pilot of Mission from ISRO. Mission expert ESA Project Astronaut Slavos is from Poland from Uznanski-Visnivski and Tibor Capu from Hungary.
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