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The Axiom-4 mission’s launch has been postponed to June 10 at 5:52 PM IST. Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla expressed confidence in the mission’s success after extensive training despite the delays due to weather and vehicle processing.
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The Axiom-4 space mission having been pushed back by two days, Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who is part of the Axiom team, said he was confident of success.
Axiom Space has announced that the lift-off for will now take place at 5.52 pm (India time) on June 10. This is the third time the mission has been deferred.
NASA said the delay is to “to account for weather during vehicle transportation and completing final processing of the vehicle ahead of launch”.
Group Captain Shukla – who is on mandatory pre-launch quarantine at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center – told NDTV that for the last one year, they have been undergoing rigorous training and he is confident of success.
“I can say that we have experienced a lot of different aspects or facets of this mission,” he told NDTV in an interview.
These, he said, included theoretical studies, simulator training, and “undergoing various protocols of underwater survival and emergency egress”.
“Having done these activities over the past few months, repeatedly again and again, I feel very confident, not just in my ability, but in the ability of this team who is sitting here, to execute this mission successfully,” he said.
“I am extremely confident that we will be successful in this mission,” he added.
