US EditionPrivate Astronaut Mission Includes Research to Open Space to Astronauts With Diabetes and Enable Early Cancer Detection
- Axiom Space will launch its fourth private astronaut mission, Ax-4, on June 10, 2025, to the International Space Station .
- This mission follows three previous crews and prepares for Axiom's plan to build and launch a new space station module starting in 2027 before the ISS retires.
- Ax-4’s crew will conduct 60 scientific studies from 31 countries, focusing on aggressive cancers like triple-negative breast cancer in microgravity.
- Peggy Whitson, mission commander, explained cancer cells grow faster and drug responses appear quicker in space, allowing promising drug evaluation in short missions.
- The mission advances efforts to maintain a continuous U.S. Human presence in space, providing research opportunities and supporting transition to Axiom’s independent space station by 2030.
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America’s most expensive government housing project cost north of $100 billion, took 13 years to build, and has been continuously occupied since 2000—yet most of the time no more than six people live there. That’s because the residence in question is the International Space Station (ISS), a million-pound orbital outpost with a footprint larger than a football field and the habitable volume of a six-bedroom house, circling the Earth 250 miles ove…
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