Axiom-4 mission carrying Indian astronaut Shukla to International Space Station postponed to June 10

New Delhi: Axiom Space's mission to the International Space Station (ISS), carrying Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three others, has been postponed to June 10 at 5:52 pm IST, onboard SpaceX's Falcon-9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

The announcement was made during a virtual press conference with the Axiom-4 mission crew members, who are currently in quarantine before their travel to the ISS.

The spaceflight was originally scheduled for May 29 and then rescheduled to June 8.

In a pre-flight press conference, the Axiom-4 crew comprising Mission Commander Peggy Whitson, Mission Pilot Shukla and mission specialists Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski from Poland and Tibor Kapu from Hungary, unveiled a zero gravity indicator called ‘Joy’ – a swan which has different cultural references in each of the participating nations in the mission.