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Mike Wall

'Space chocolate,' mango nectar and pierogis: Here are the international foods the private Ax-4 astronauts are flying to the ISS

The crew of Axiom Space's Ax-4 astronaut mission to the International Space Station. From left to right: Tibor Kapu of Hungary, Shubhanshu Shukla of India, American Peggy Whitson and Poland’s Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski.

The next astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) will have a very international flavor — literally.

That flight — known as Ax-4, because it's the fourth crewed trip to the ISS by Houston company Axiom Space — lifted off on Wednesday morning (June 11) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Space Coast.

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