{"id":29753,"date":"2025-06-11T12:23:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T06:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29753"},"modified":"2025-07-04T17:41:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T12:11:37","slug":"axiom-4-mission-ax-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/axiom-4-mission-ax-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Axiom-4 Mission (Ax-4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Axiom Mission 4 Latest News<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just days after anticipation built around Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla\u2019s participation in Axiom Mission 4, the launch has been postponed again.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About Axiom Mission 4<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) is the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS), organized by Axiom Space in collaboration with NASA, SpaceX, and ISRO.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Objectives:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enable commercial activities in low Earth orbit, including space tourism and private research.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Demonstrate the feasibility of commercial space stations as platforms for business and science.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strengthen international collaboration in space exploration.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conduct scientific experiments in microgravity, focusing on materials science, biology, Earth observation, and life sciences.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Launch Vehicle &amp; Capsule: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First flight of Crew Dragon C213\u2014the fifth and final new Dragon capsule\u2014to be launched atop a Falcon\u20119 Block\u202f5 from LC\u201139A, Kennedy Space Centre.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Mission Timeline:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Originally set for early June 2025, the mission was moved multiple times\u2014 then again postponed on June 11, due to the LOx leak, which caused further delay.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Crew (4 total):<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peggy Whitson (USA)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shubhanshu Shukla (India)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">S\u0142awosz Uzna\u0144ski\u2011Wi\u015bniewski (Poland)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission Specialist: Tibor Kapu (Hungary)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Significance:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marks India\u2019s return to human spaceflight after 41 years, since Rakesh Sharma\u2019s 1984 mission.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First government-sponsored flights to the ISS for India, Poland, and Hungary in over four decades.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/science\/shubhanshu-shuklas-axiom-4-mission-delayed-thrice-when-will-spacex-launch-it-11749616600574.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MINT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) is a historic private spaceflight to the International Space Station, featuring India&#8217;s return to human spaceflight after 41 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[783],"class_list":{"0":"post-29753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-axiom-4-mission","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}