India’s Shubhanshu Shukla’s Axiom-4 mission now concentrating on June 25 launch

Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla’s Axiom-4 mission to the Worldwide House Station is now eyeing a launch on June 25, NASA introduced on Tuesday (June 24, 2025).

The Axiom-4 mission, which marks the return to area for India, Hungary, and Poland, was earlier scheduled for lift-off from NASA’s Kennedy House Centre in Florida on June 25 onboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket at 12:01 p.m. IST on Wednesday.

“NASA, Axiom House, and SpaceX are concentrating on 2:31 a.m. EDT (12:01 IST), Wednesday, June 25, for launch of the fourth non-public astronaut mission to the Worldwide House Station, Axiom Mission 4,” a NASA assertion stated.

The Axiom-4 industrial mission is led by Commander Peggy Whitson, with Mr. Shukla as mission pilot and Hungarian astronaut Tibor Kapu and Poland’s Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski as mission specialists.

The mission was initially scheduled for lift-off on Might 29 however was then postpone to June 8, then June 10 and June 11, when engineers detected a liquid oxygen leak within the boosters of the Falcon-9 rocket and NASA additionally detected leaks within the ageing Russian module of the Worldwide House Station.

The launch was then deliberate for June 19 after which on June 22 which was postpone to permit NASA consider operations of the ISS after repairs within the Russian module.

The mission will raise off from Launch Complicated 39A at NASA’s Kennedy House Centre in Florida.

The crew will journey to the orbiting laboratory on a brand new SpaceX Dragon spacecraft after launching on the corporate’s Falcon 9 rocket.

The focused docking time is roughly 7 am (4:30 p.m. IST) Thursday, June 26, NASA stated.