The mission is carried on Elon Musks SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Indian astronaut and pilot Shubhanshu Shukla is the commander of the mission. With this Shukla is the second Indian to go into space.

SpaceX had reset the countdown clock for its next human spaceflight, but a NASA decision has forced another delay of the private Axiom Space Ax-4 mission to the International Space Station.

After several postponed launches, Axiom Space's four private astronauts are finally on their way to the International Space Station (ISS). The multinational crew lifted off successfully aboard a SpaceX Dragon launched by a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A in Florida early Wednesday at 2:31 a.