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On August 5th of this year, Dr. Sławosz Uznański, the Polish project astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA), will begin training in preparation for the Polish mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission is planned for 2025.
The first stage of training will take place at the facilities of Axiom Space, NASA, and SpaceX in the United States. the AX4 mission, besides the Polish astronaut,will include representatives from Hungary and India.
- Peggy Whitson (USA) – mission commander
- Sławosz Uznański (Poland/ESA) – mission specialist
- Shubhanshu Shukla (India) – mission pilot
- Tibor Kapu (Hungary) – mission specialist
The crew members are still pending approval from the Multilateral Crew Operations Panel (MCOP), the international committee responsible for the ISS, which includes representatives from NASA, ESA, Roscosmos, JAXA, and the Canadian Space Agency.
The mission is scheduled to launch next year from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The flight to the ISS will be carried out using SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, which will launch the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The astronauts are expected to spend approximately 14 days aboard the ISS.
AX-4 will be the next commercial crewed mission by Axiom Space. The participation of the Polish astronaut in this mission is a result of an agreement between the Ministry of Development and Technology and ESA to prepare and conduct a Polish technological mission to the ISS. The Polish Space Agency (POLSA), as the executive agency of the Ministry of Development and Technology, is also involved in preparing the mission. The mission’s program will primarily focus on experiments developed by representatives of the Polish space sector under the direction of ESA.
