India's Shubhanshu Shukla, along side 3 other astronauts, is scheduled to travel to the ISS as part of the Axiom-four commercial challenge on june 19, the indian space research employer (ISRO) announced on Saturday.
His project turned into earlier placed on indefinite put off due to an issue associated with a leak on the worldwide space Station. nasa announced on thursday that it become examining a leak onboard the ISS's Russian module.
The astronauts had been at first scheduled for lift-off on may additionally 29, which turned into do away with to june eight, june 10 and june eleven, when spacex, the carriers of the launch rocket and the distance pill, detected a liquid oxygen leak inside the Falcon-9 rocket.
Former nasa astronaut and director of human spaceflight at Axiom space, Peggy Whitson, will command the economic mission, whilst indian space studies organisation (ISRO) astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla will function pilot.
The two undertaking experts are european area organization (ESA) challenge astronaut Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski of poland and Tibor Kapu of Hungary.
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