The Secret Base of the Rebel Black Dot Society: The Stars My Destination: Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4)

Monday, July 27, 2026

The Stars My Destination: Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4)

Better Late than Never | Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea máxima culpa!

The Space Age
25 June-15 July 2025: Commander Peggy Whitson (Axiom Space), Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla (Indian Space Research Organization), Mission Specialist Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski (European Space Agency), & Mission Specialist Tibor Kapu (Hungarian Space Research Office) lifted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center's LC-39A aboard the Crew Dragon Grace (C213) atop a Falcon 9 rocket. The Grace spent eighteen days docked to the International Space Station during Expedition 73, splashed down in the Pacific, & was recovered by the M.V. Shannon.

Whitson was a N.A.S.A. astronaut & a veteran of four previous spaceflights (STS-111 [launch]/STS-113 [landing] for Expedition 5; Soyuz TMA-11 for Expedition 16; Soyuz MS-03 [launch]/Soyuz MS-04 [landing] for Expeditions 50, 51, & 52; & Ax-2); Shukla, Uznański-Wiśniewski, & Kapu were rookies, & each the first Indian, Polish, & Hungarian astronaut since the Soviet Union's old Interkosmos program.

Ax-4 was the first flight of the Grace.

Bonus! Song o' the Day: Ax-4 & the Grace
A. R. Rahman, Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah, & Mahalakshmi Iyer, "Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire: Music from the Motion Picture (Space Cadet Mike Papa Whiskey)

Monday, July 27, 2026

The Stars My Destination: Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4)

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