Axiom 4 Mission crew training inside a SpaceX Dragon vehicle in Hawthorne, California.
From left to right, mission specialist Tibor Kapu, pilot Shubhanshu Shukla, commander Peggy Whitson, and ESA project astronaut and mission specialist Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski during the Ax-4 SpaceX dry dress rehearsal.
Sławosz is heading to the International Space Station on his first mission as part of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4). He is the second ESA project astronaut from a new generation of Europeans to fly on a commercial human spaceflight mission with Axiom Space.
Sponsored by the Polish government and supported by ESA, the Polish Ministry of Economic Development and Technology (MRiT), and the Polish Space Agency (POLSA), the mission—called Ignis—features an ambitious technological and scientific programme. It includes several experiments proposed by the Polish space industry and developed in cooperation with ESA, along with additional ESA-led experiments.
Follow Sławosz’s journey on the Ignis mission website.