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City planetarium screens Axiom-4 lift-off, schoolkids assemble to watch spectacle
Guwahati: In a bid to ignite public interest in space science, the Guwahati Planetarium hosted a live screening of the Axiom-4 launch on Wednesday. The much-anticipated event, which had faced multiple delays, drew several viewers —including dozens of school students excited to witness the spectacle.
Babul Chandra Bora, consulting scientific officer at the planetarium, said around 40-50 students attended the screening. "Our state is gradually embracing space science and technology. Events like these are important for sparking curiosity among youths. By screening the Axiom-4 launch live, we want them to understand that space exploration is no longer a distant dream — it's becoming a part of their academic and scientific journey," Bora said.
The Axiom-4 mission, supported by
NASA
and led by Axiom Space in collaboration with
SpaceX
, is part of a push to advance commercial human spaceflight. The mission uses SpaceX's Falcon-9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft, which launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft is expected to dock autonomously with the International Space Station on Thursday.
Piloting the spacecraft is India's Subhanshu Shukla — set to become the second Indian in space after Rakesh Sharma.
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Along with him are, Peggy Whitson, former NASA astronaut and director of human spaceflight at Axiom Space, who is commanding the mission, and two mission specialists are ESA (European Space Agency) project astronaut Slawosz Uznanski Wisniewski of Poland and Tibor Kapu of Hungary.
