Overview

• The mission will lift off on June 8 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule.
• Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla will serve as mission pilot, becoming the first ISRO astronaut on the ISS and the second Indian in space since 1984.
• Seven experiments led by Indian researchers will examine edible microalgae growth, salad seed sprouting, cyanobacteria behaviour, muscle regeneration under microgravity and other life science phenomena.
• Commander Peggy Whitson of the United States will lead the crew alongside mission specialists Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski of Poland and Tibor Kapu of Hungary.
• Data and operational experience from Axiom-4 are expected to advance deep-space life support technologies and feed directly into India’s planned Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme.