{"id":354173,"date":"2025-06-10T00:17:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T05:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=354173"},"modified":"2025-06-10T00:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T05:48:16","slug":"all-eyes-on-ax-4-the-mission-carrying-indian-astronaut-shubhanshu-shukla-to-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/all-eyes-on-ax-4-the-mission-carrying-indian-astronaut-shubhanshu-shukla-to-iss\/","title":{"rendered":"All eyes on AX 4, the mission carrying Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla to ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/All-eyes-on-AX-4-the-mission-carrying-Indian-astronaut-Shubhanshu-Shukla-to-ISS.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-354174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/All-eyes-on-AX-4-the-mission-carrying-Indian-astronaut-Shubhanshu-Shukla-to-ISS.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/All-eyes-on-AX-4-the-mission-carrying-Indian-astronaut-Shubhanshu-Shukla-to-ISS-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/All-eyes-on-AX-4-the-mission-carrying-Indian-astronaut-Shubhanshu-Shukla-to-ISS-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/All-eyes-on-AX-4-the-mission-carrying-Indian-astronaut-Shubhanshu-Shukla-to-ISS-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/All-eyes-on-AX-4-the-mission-carrying-Indian-astronaut-Shubhanshu-Shukla-to-ISS-696x428.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/All-eyes-on-AX-4-the-mission-carrying-Indian-astronaut-Shubhanshu-Shukla-to-ISS-683x420.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All eyes are on the launch of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax 4) carrying Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla to the International Space Station (ISS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally scheduled for June 10,&nbsp; the mission was postponed to June 11 due to weather conditions. Indian space agency ISRO said the mission\u2019s backup date was already set as June 11 by Axiom Space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDue to weather conditions, the Axiom-4 Mission launching Indian astronaut to the ISS is rescheduled from June 10 to June 11 with a targeted launch time of 5.30 pm IST.\u201d ISRO Chairman Dr V Narayanan said on Monday&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group Capt Shukla is India&#8217;s second astronaut to venture into space.&nbsp; Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian to fly to space<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Serving as mission pilot, Shukla will be joined on AX 4 by commander Peggy Whitson and mission specialists S\u0142awosz Uzna\u0144ski-Wi\u015bniewski and Tibor Kapu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ax\u20114 is a planned private spaceflight to the ISS operated by Axiom Space in partnership with SpaceX and NASA. The flight is scheduled to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All eyes are on the launch of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax 4) carrying Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla to the International Space Station (ISS) Originally scheduled for June 10,&nbsp; the mission was postponed to June 11 due to weather conditions. Indian space agency ISRO said the mission\u2019s backup date was already set as June 11 by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":354174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[19769,16712,19770],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354175,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354173\/revisions\/354175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/354174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}