The debut space mission of India’s Shubhanshu Shukla has been delayed by a day. SpaceX announced on Monday that the launch is now targeted at 5:30 pm IST from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida due to high winds. Group Captain in the Indian Air Force, Shukla is part of Axiom Space’s Ax-4 mission which is being launched atop SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket.

“Now targeting no earlier than Wednesday, June 11 for Falcon 9 to launch Axiom Space’s Ax-4 mission to the @Space_Station due to high winds in the ascent corridor,” SpaceX posted on X.

Now targeting no earlier than Wednesday, June 11 for Falcon 9 to launch @Axiom_Space‘s Ax-4 mission to the @Space_Station due to high winds in the ascent corridor → https://t.co/LU1wyD8uZ0 pic.twitter.com/7jygzWEUwD
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 9, 2025

Shukla will pilot the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft which will also be occupied by former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and two mission specialists and debutants – Tibor Kapu from Hungary and Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski from Poland.

Representing India, meet #Ax4 Mission Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla. @isro pic.twitter.com/3NkwIP3ER7
— Axiom Space (@Axiom_Space) June 8, 2025

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The four-membered crew entered mandatory pre-flight quarantine on May 25 at the Kennedy Space Center and they completed a full dress rehearsal on Monday.

You can watch the live broadcast of the launch which will begin two hours prior to liftoff on SpaceX’s X account, its website, Axiom Space’s X account or ISRO’s YouTube channel.

The Ax-4 crew and SpaceX teams completed a full rehearsal of launch day activities ahead of liftoff on Tuesday pic.twitter.com/MEhuTdeuDf
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 8, 2025

Shukla is on his way to becoming the first Indian astronaut to live on the space station. The Ax-4 mission will last two weeks and the crew will conduct more than 60 experiments and technology demonstrations representing 31 countries.

Notably, SpaceX is using a brand new Dragon spacecraft for this mission but it will be the second flight for the first stage Falcon 9 booster, which previously launched a Starlink mission. The booster will return for a landing on the Landing Zone 1 instead of a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean like Starlink missions.

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