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Ax-4 Boards Dragon and Closes Hatch for Departure

(From left) Ax-4 Mission Specialist Tibor Kapu, Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla, Commander Peggy Whitson, and Mission Specialist Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski wave from inside the Space Dragon spacecraft.
(From left) Ax-4 Mission Specialist Tibor Kapu, Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla, Commander Peggy Whitson, and Mission Specialist Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski wave from inside the Space Dragon spacecraft.
Axiom Space

At 5:07 a.m. EDT, the hatch closed between the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station in preparation for the undocking and return to Earth of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), with astronauts Peggy Whitson, Shubhanshu Shukla, Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, and Tibor Kapu.

Live coverage on NASA+ will resume at 6:45 a.m. before the scheduled undocking of the Dragon spacecraft at 7:05 a.m. NASA’s coverage will end approximately 30 minutes after undocking when space station joint operations with Axiom Space and SpaceX conclude.

Undocking begins the private astronaut mission’s journey home with splashdown off the coast of California, targeted for Tuesday, July 15. Axiom Space will resume coverage of Dragon’s re-entry and splashdown on the company’s website.

Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station on X, as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.

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