Axiom Space Ax-1 mission: The first all-private crew to the International Space Station
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October 08, 2022
The launch sent a SpaceX Crew Dragon to orbit April 8, for a 10-day International Space Station mission.
Axiom Mission 1 was a mission to the International Space Station by the Houston-based Axiom Space that marked the first fully private crew to the orbiting complex. It launched on April 8, 2022.
SpaceX launched a four-person crew on the mission that included a former NASA astronaut and three paying spaceflyers. The four space travelers aimed to distinguish themselves as much as possible from space tourists by performing experiments and research on the International Space Station. The mission was originally scheduled to last 10 days, but was extended to 17 days due to bad weather at the crew's splashdown site.
Axiom Space plans to run additional missions to the space station in the coming years before aiming to send up its own module in 2024, which will also be used as a movie studio and experiments. Read below to find out more about the Axiom Space 1 mission and how that work fits into NASA's and Axiom Space's plans.
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