NASA Axiom Mission Launch: Countdown Begins As India Awaits Shubhanshu Shukla's Axiom-4 Launch

NASA Axiom-4 Mission Launch LIVE Updates: After several delays, India's Shubhanshu Shukla is all set to travel to the International Space Station on Wednesday on an American commercial mission with three other astronauts, after SpaceX announced that the weather was 90 per cent favourable for blasts off. Axiom Mission 4, or Ax-4, is scheduled to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at 2:31 am (6:31 am GMT), with a brand-new SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule riding atop a Falcon 9 rocket. The mission will lift off from Launch Complex 39A. Along with Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, aboard the spacecraft will be mission specialists Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski of Poland and Tibor Kapu of Hungary, and commander Peggy Whitson of the United States, a former NASA astronaut who now works for the company Axiom Space, which organises private spaceflights, among other things.

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