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Title: How to watch the Axiom Mission 4 astronauts reach the ISS

Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:30:59 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/science/space/how-to...

A new Dragon spacecraft launched on top of a Falcon 9 rocket at 2:31AM
Eastern time on June 25, 2025 to take the four astronauts of Axiom Mission 4
to the International Space Station. It's the second Axiom mission that's been
sponsored in part by national governments, with the country and space
organization of each participant contributing to mission costs. Former NASA
astronaut Peggy Whitson serves as the mission commander, while Indian Space
Research Organisation astonaut Shubhanshu Shukla is the mission pilot. ESA
astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski of Poland and Tibor Kapu of the
Hungarian Space Office join them as mission specialists.

Nothing like a liftoff 🚀@Axiom_Space's #Ax4 mission, riding atop a @SpaceX
Falcon 9 rocket, launched from @NASAKennedy at 2:31am ET (0631 UTC).
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ΓÇö NASA (@NASA) June 25, 2025

Axiom Mission 4 marks the return to space of the four aforementioned
countries, which had previously participated in Soviet-era Interkosmos
missions over 40 years ago. The Dragon capsule carrying the astronauts, which
they've named "Grace," is expected to reach and dock with the ISS at 7AM
Eastern on June 26. NASA's live coverage will start at 5AM, and you'll be
able to watch it on the NASA+ website ΓÇö or you can bookmark this page and
return to it later to watch the event below.

The astronauts are expected to live with the other ISS residents for 14 days
to conduct various research experiments aboard the orbiting lab. Axiom says
the experiments represents 31 countries and cover a wide range of topics
across life, biological and material sciences.

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