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The Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) crew lifts off to the International Space Station atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from launchpad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, on 25 June at\u00a002:31 EDT, local time (07:31 BST\/08:31 CEST).<\/p>\n
ESA project astronaut S\u0142awosz\u00a0Uzna\u0144ski-Wi\u015bniewski travels to his new home in space in the Dragon spacecraft. S\u0142awosz is part of Axiom Mission 4 alongside Peggy Whitson (USA), Shubhanshu Shukla (India) and Tibor Kapu (Hungary).<\/p>\n
During their journey on the Dragon spacecraft to the orbital outpost S\u0142awosz\u00a0and Tibor will serve as mission specialists, Shubhanshu will be the crew\u2019s pilot and Peggy\u00a0will be commander.<\/p>\n
The Polish project astronaut is the second of a new generation of European astronauts to fly on a commercial human spaceflight opportunity with Axiom Space. Sponsored by the Polish government and supported by ESA, the Polish\u00a0Ministry of Economic Development and Technology\u00a0(MRiT), and the\u00a0Polish Space\u00a0Agency\u00a0(POLSA), the mission will include an ambitious technological and scientific programme with several experiments led by ESA and proposed by the Polish space industry. The mission, known as Ignis will officially begin once S\u0142awosz \u00a0enters the Station.<\/p>\n
S\u0142awosz\u00a0Uzna\u0144ski-Wi\u015bniewski was selected in November 2022 as a member of the ESA astronaut reserve and joined ESA as a project astronaut on 1 September 2023 for training familiarisation at ESA\u2019s European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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