NASA Puts Off Sunday’s Launch of Axiom-4 Mission To International Space Station

New Delhi: NASA launched the Axiom-4 mission that carried Indian astronaut Shukla on Sunday and the other three to the International Space Station, and said it requires additional time to evaluate the operations in the orbit laboratory after the latest repairs in the Russian section.

The Axiom-4 mission was aiming to launch a June 22 launch due to a leak in SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket boosters, hard air and zvezda service module in the rise orbit.

The space agency said that the Orbital Laboratory needs additional time to continue to evaluate international space station operations after the latest repair works near the Zvezda service module.

Axiom space description, due to the interconnected and interconnected systems of the space station NASA, the station is ready for additional crew members wants to make sure that the agency’s time to review the data, he said.

Peggy Whitson, former NASA astronaut and Human Space flight director in Axiom Space, will serve as Shukla Pilot while commanding the commercial mission. Two Mission Experts European Space Agency (ESA) Project Astronaut Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski and Tibor Kapu from Hungary.

The 14 -day mission will “realize return” to human space flight for India, Poland and Hungary.

Astronauts initially detected a liquid oxygen leakage in the Falcon-9 rocket of SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket until June 29, June 8, June 10 and June 11.

At a pre-launch press conference on June 10, SpaceX Vice President William Gertenmaier said that the engineers detected a liquid oxygen leakage that was not fully repaired during the regeneration during the re-entry phase of the previous task.

In the same press interaction, NASA’s International Space Station Program Manager Dana Weigel said that there were launch opportunities until June 30th.

Authorized, SpaceX and Axiom Space in June, if the market is not released, there are opportunities since mid -July, he added.

The Axiom-4 crew has been quarantine before 26 May.

Pre -launch quarantine is required to monitor the health of astronauts, to be exposed to last -minute disease and to ensure that the astronauts flying to the space station do not carry any infection to the closed environment of the orbit laboratory.