We will have a little more time to see the next private mission of Astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS).
NASA announced on Wednesday (May 14) that Target’s launch date for AX-4, Creed’s fourth flight to the ISS of the Axiom Space company, based in Houston, has been promoted from May 29 to June 8.
The delay is part of a series of ISS programming settings, which “will provide more time to the final mission plans, the preparation for the spacecraft and logistics,” the agency officials wrote in an update on Wednesday.
AX-4 will take off on a Spacex Falcon 9 rocket of the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida, taking four people to the laboratory in orbit aboard a dragon spacecraft.
That quartet will be directed by the former NASA Astronaut’s record Peggy Whitson“ Who currently serves as director of Human Space Flights of Axiom. The pilot Shubhanshu Shukla or India, the specialist in Polish missions Sławosz Uznański or the European space agency and specialist in Missions Tibor Kapu or Hungary, joins her.
AX-4 will mark the first time anyone in those last three countries lives aboard the ISS. The Spacyflyers will carry out almost 60 scientific research duration, which is expected to remain docked in the orbits laboratory for approximately two weeks.
Two other ISS missions, both Spacex flights, are affected by the recently announced reprogramming.
The Astronaut Mission of the Spacex-11 crew for NASA is now scheduled to launch before the end of July (instead of simply “July”), and the company’s CRS-33 load flight is pointing to an takeoff from the end of August.
