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Shubhanshu Shukla to Pilot Axiom-4 in India’s First ISS Visit

SpaceX has backed down from plans to decommission its Dragon capsule just days before the mission

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Overview

  • The mission is set to lift off on June 10 from Kennedy Space Center aboard a Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule
  • Group Captain Shukla will join commander Peggy Whitson and specialists from Poland and Hungary on a 14-day scientific stay
  • Crew members are completing mandatory quarantine protocols in Florida ahead of launch
  • About 60 experiments from 31 nations will be conducted, including seven microgravity studies selected by ISRO
  • NASA has scheduled the Dragon spacecraft’s autonomous docking at 10:00 p.m. EDT on June 11