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Josh Dinner

Leak on International Space Station delays SpaceX launch of Axiom-4 astronauts

A black and white rocket with crew capsule at the top, connected to a gantry leading to a black tower. In the foreground, short bushes in front of the launch pad.

The crew members of Axiom-4 are stuck in a holding pattern inside their astronaut quarantine, as a leak persists in of of the space station's Russian modules.

Houston-based Axiom Space was set to launch its fourth astronaut mission (Ax-4) with SpaceX last week, but the mission is being postponed again due to an air leak detected in Russia's Zvezda module of the International Space Station (ISS). The mission was originally slated for June 11, and has been pushed down the calendar three times now, due to the issues aboard the ISS.

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