Russell Lewis This image provided by NASA shows Axiom Space crew members from the Ax-4 mission from second left, Poland's Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski, Axiom Space's Peggy Whitson, India's Shubhanshu Shukla and Hungary's Tibor Kapu aboard the International Space Station, on June 26, 2025. AP/via NASA hide caption toggle caption They flew the maiden voyage of SpaceX's newest capsule, named Grace. The commander, Peggy Whitson, extended her record-setting cumulative time in space by a U.S. astronaut to 695 days. Now Axiom Space's director of human spaceflight, the veteran former NASA astronaut made her fifth overall space trip. She was joined on Ax-4 by astronauts from India (pilot Shubhanshu Shukla), Poland (mission specialist Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski) and Hungary (mission specialist Tibor Kapu). Axiom Space notes it was the first time in four decades that, "these nations launched national astronauts into space — and for the first time ever, their astronauts lived and worked aboard the International Space Station."