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SpaceX rolls out Falcon 9 and Dragon for India astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla's historic trip to space; Check visuals
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The SpaceX on Saturday rolled out Falcon 9 and Dragon to pad 39A ahead of Axiom Space 's fourth human spaceflight from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on June 10."Falcon 9 and Dragon rolled out to pad 39A in Florida earlier today ahead of Tuesday's launch of@Axiom_Space's Ax-4 mission to the @Space_Station," said SpaceX in a post on astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three others are set to embark on the Axiom Space's fourth human spaceflight from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on June 10 and are likely to dock at the International Space Station on June 11 at about 10 PM IST, after a nearly 28-hour the mission pilot of the Axiom-4 (Ax4) commercial mission to the ISS, will be accompanied by mission commander Peggy Whitson and specialists Tibor Kapu from Hungary and Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski from Axiom-4 mission will mark India's return to space 41 years after Rakesh Sharma's historic spaceflight onboard Russia's Soyuz mission in 1984."The crew will travel to the orbiting laboratory on a new SpaceX Dragon spacecraft after launching on the company's Falcon 9 rocket. The targeted docking time is approximately 12:30 (10:00 p.m. IST), Wednesday, June 11," NASA said in a statement.
