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The mission to send Shubhanshu Shukla on space travel again, NASA does not want to take risk…
Samira Vishwas | June 20, 2025 1:24 PM CST

New Delhi. Indian Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three astronauts to the International Space Station to three astronauts have been postponed. Till now the mission was fixed for 22 June. But according to the statement of NASA, the Exiom 4 mission has been carried forward due to security check. The statement issued by Exhium Space said that NASA has decided to postpone the launch on this Sunday. Significantly, this mission has been postponed many times before and is constantly being delayed. It is said that NASA is very cautious about this and she does not want to take any kind of risk.

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Time needs to check repair
NASA said in the statement that it needs more time to check the repair in ISS. There have been some repairing in the AFR section of the ISS’s Joint Service Module. In such a situation, NASA engineers want to see if it is fully prepared to support a new group of astronauts. The agency said that NASA is taking enough time to review the data. The goal is to ensure whether the station is capable of bearing the weight of additional members.

What is Exhium-4
Examser Paigi Whitson is leading the Exhimia-4 Commercial Mission. It is Shubhanshu Shukla Mission Pilot. In addition, Hungary astronaut Tibor Kapu and Slavose Uznansky-Visnivsky Mission experts are experts. Significantly, the Exiom-4 mission is constantly facing challenges. It has so far been postponed several times due to technical problems, weather conditions and security.

Mission has been postponed many times
The mission was originally to be launched on 29 May. But it was postponed first to June 8, then 10 June and then 11 June after leakage of liquid oxygen leakage in the booster of Falcon-9 rocket and leakage in the old Russian module of the international space station. After this, the date of June 19 was fixed, but that day also the launch was averted. Then this mission was to be launched on 22 and 23 June, but according to the latest update it is still in the balance.


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