KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Despite a technical issue regarding the launch escape system, SpaceX was able to send up Axiom Space’s Ax-4 mission early Wednesday morning. The four astronauts — three of whom ...

Axiom Space announced that it would be bringing home its private Axiom 4 (Ax-4) crew Cmdr. Peggy Whitson, pilot Shubhanshu Shukla, and mission specialists Tibor Kapu and Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski.