Axiom 4 The mission carrying the crew members has now reached the International Space Station (ISS) after being launched from the Kennedy Space Center on IST on June 25, 2025 at 12:01 pm. Dragon commander Paigi Whiteson, Mission expert Sylawosz Uznaanski-Wiśnieski and Tibor Kapu, and Pilot Shubhushu Shukla. It will do the flight engineers at the Harmony Module Space-Fesing Port at 7 am on Thursday. NASAAnne McClane and Nicole Aeries will be on duty and will monitor the dragon during its automatic approach, and also for maneuvers.
Dragon Capsules to do doc on 27 June in Harmoni module
NasallyAfter docking, the AX-4 astronauts will meet seven expeditions with 73 crew. They will further participate in a security briefing with the residents of the station. McClane and Airters, along with the rest of the crew, were maintaining microgravity research and lab on Wednesday.
Riding on Axiom Mission 4 @Spacex Dragon docked the station at 6:31 am today. Soon AX-4 astronaut will open a hatch and congratulate the Exp 73 Crew Live @NasaMore… https://t.co/xmwypa4bht pic.twitter.com/ljjmd7dfmw
– International Space Station (@Space_Station) 26 June, 2025
McClane went through the research hardware and processed samples in the Destiny Lab Module, further photographed for the ground analysis. Aires performed Study On fluid physics in microgravity science glovebox, which can benefit drug manufacturing techniques and 3D printing in space.
Campaign 73 crew prepares for AX-4 arrival with regular duties
NASA Fight Engineer Johnny Kim and Commander Takuya Onishi tested a special thigh cuff that could reverse the space-causing fluid change towards the upper body of the crew member. Both wore the biomedical device in the Columbus Lab Module as an ultrasound 2 scan and measured the cardiac output, the heart rate and greater blood pressure, which was to know the effectiveness of the thigh cuffs in relation to the health of the crew.
Scientific research and biomedical tests are going on in ISS
Sergei ryzhikov, experienced cosmonott and three times a space Visitors, started their innings in the Zvezda service lab module and replaced the computer components before the day closed. In addition, he charges science experiment battery and activates an Earth observation camera. Flight engineer Alexi Zubritsky at NASA reorganized the cargo inside the Naqa Science module and dumped the garbage, and also abandoned the gear in the progress 90 cargo craft as he had to depart the poik module after seven days. Another flight engineer, Kiril Peskov, cleaned the boating ventilation system and examined the exposure data of radiation while orbiting the Earth.