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Axiom Space prepares for its fourth mission to the ISS


Axiom Space plans to launch its fourth mission on Tuesday, June 10 — a mission that CEO Tejpaul Bhatia described as “a little bit of a victory lap.”

In fact, the company has also dubbed this mission as one that will “realize the return” to human spaceflight for India, Poland, and Hungary, who will each have an astronaut on the flight. Axiom Space declined to comment on how the Trump-Musk feud might affect the industry, but when Bhatia and I spoke in late May, I asked him a related question about the political landscape — namely, whether potential budget cuts at NASA and more broadly across scientific research threatened the optimistic vision that he was presenting. When we spoke, Bhatia told me it was only his fourth week on the job after replacing the company’s co-founder Dr. Kam Ghaffarian as chief executive.

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