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home | newest check | boards | help index | log | ps | userlogin | send sysop | slog | status forward | bcm news | users | version | remove cookieWG3K > ANS 24.06.25 09:03l 30 Lines 1512 Bytes #21 (0) @ AMSAT BID : ANS173.6 Read: GUEST Subj: SpaceX to Launch Fourth Commercial Axiom Mission to the Spac Path: JH4XSY<IW0QNL<IZ3LSV<IK6IHL<IK7NXU<HB9ON<DK0WUE<PD0LPM<IR0AAB<VK2RZ< W0ARP<K5DAT<WW6Q<WG3K Sent: 250623/2338Z 19050@WG3K.#SMD.MD.USA.NOAM LinBPQ6.0.24 Axiom Space is on verge of its fourth private astronaut mission to space in as many years. The flight, dubbed Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), will see the astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary reach the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time. The four crew members, led by Axiom Space’s Director of Human Spaceflight, Peggy Whitson, will embark on a roughly two-week mission to the orbiting outpost. The quartet will launch onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, but the launch was delayed due to a variety of issues, including an air leak on the ISS, weather, and a possible issue with the Falcon 9 booster rocket. SpaceX had also said on Sunday, June 15, it was reviewing data from a static test firing that took place that day, suggesting there was perhaps an undisclosed technical problem. The mission was previously delayed from late May because the mission’s brand new Crew Dragon spacecraft was not ready. The mission, dubbed Axiom Mission 4 or Ax-4, features the debut of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, tail number C213. This has been billed by SpaceX as its fifth and final Dragon capsule. SpaceX’s long-term goals are to shift its human spaceflight missions from Dragon to its Starship rocket, which it said will be capable of ferrying dozens of people into space. A number of amateur radio contacts are among the tasks that are to be performed by the Axiom crew during their time aboard the ISS. [ANS thanks Spaceflight Now for the above information]
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