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Axiom 4 Mission crew training inside a SpaceX Dragon vehicle in Hawthorne, California.<\/p>\n
From left to right,\u00a0mission specialist Tibor Kapu, pilot Shubhanshu Shukla, commander Peggy Whitson, and ESA project astronaut and mission specialist S\u0142awosz Uzna\u0144ski-Wi\u015bniewski\u00a0during the Ax-4 SpaceX dry dress rehearsal.<\/p>\n
S\u0142awosz 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.<\/p>\n
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\u2014called Ignis\u2014features 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.<\/p>\n
Follow S\u0142awosz’s journey on the\u00a0Ignis mission website.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n