# @europeanspaceagency on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DMLO1vatsM2
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/35582091-europeanspaceagency-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/d6cabe91ac.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-07-16T16:32:44.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** J.L.Lopez (@xandler80) — https://gondola.cc/xandler80

## Caption

Welcome home, Sławosz! 🐦‍🔥

After 20 days in space, our project astronaut astro_slawosz is back on Earth — and so is the incredible science, outreach and inspiration from the Ignis mission.

Together with an international crew on Axiom Mission 4, Sławosz carried out over 20 experiments in orbit, helping advance research in neuroscience, biology, materials science and radiation. But he didn’t stop there. From the moment he arrived on the iss, he connected with students, teachers and scientists across Poland and Europe.

He turned the Station into a classroom, demonstrating experiments designed by Polish students, answering questions live from orbit, and even sharing pierogi with the ground team — the same batch that flew to space with him.

The Ax-4 crew was truly global: commander astro_peggy (USA), pilot gagan.shux from isro.dos (India), and mission specialists Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski (Poland) and tibor_to_orbit (Hungary). Together, they completed the most research-intensive private astronaut mission to date.

The Ignis mission was a community effort, made possible by the hard work of our teams, ministerstworozwoju, polsa.gov.pl, universities, research centres and the support of everyone who followed along from Earth.

With nearly 230 orbits completed and over 13 million kilometres travelled, the capsule may have landed, but the mission continues. Now it’s time for scientists and educators to take what’s been brought back and carry it even further.

Swipe to see Sławosz’s return and moments from a mission that brought space closer to home.

📹 Arrival at EAC: europeanspaceagency - andreaorangesight
📸 Slawosz and wife Aleksandra at EAC: ESA - A. Conigli
📹 Splashdown and undocking: axiom.space
📸 Arrival to Houston and Dragon over Castaic Lake: Axiom Space

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## Credits

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| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ESA - European Space Agency | @europeanspaceagency | https://gondola.cc/europeanspaceagency | Government Organization |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Producer |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Editor |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Video Editor |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Social Media Manager |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Publisher |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Copywriter |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Community Manager |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Subtitler |

## Tags

europeanspaceagency, space

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