🚀 Falcon 9 | 🛰 Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4)
Launch date: June 11, 2025 12:00 UTC
Payload: Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4)
Location: Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Vehicle: Falcon 9
The SpaceX Falcon 9 launch of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), a commercial mission carrying four astronauts—Peggy Whitson (USA), Shubhanshu Shukla (India), Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski (Poland), and Tibor Kapu (Hungary)—to the International Space Station, has been indefinitely postponed following leak issues discovered on the launch vehicle and on the ISS’s Zvezda module. The mission was scheduled for 8:00 a.m. ET (12:00 UTC) on June 11, 2025, from Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, and would have marked the debut flight of Crew Dragon C213 and the second use of booster B1094, with a planned RTLS landing at LZ-1. This mission features the first government-sponsored human spaceflights to the ISS in more than 40 years for India, Poland, and Hungary, and included plans for over 60 research experiments spanning 31 countries. No new launch date has been set as investigations and repairs continue.
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LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) is one of the most significant and iconic launch pads in spaceflight history, situated at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida. Constructed in the 1960s for the Apollo program, it was the launch site of Apollo 11—the first crewed mission to land on the Moon—and later adapted for the Space Shuttle program, supporting dozens of launches over several decades.
In 2014, NASA began leasing LC-39A to SpaceX, marking a new era for the launch site. SpaceX has extensively modified the facility to support Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches, and is further upgrading the pad for Starship missions. The site is a focal point for both crewed and uncrewed flights to the International Space Station, national security launches, and commercial missions, continuing its legacy as a cornerstone of American space exploration.