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NASA Select Axiom Space Proposal Again for the third private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. The two companies have already signed mission orders and hope to launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida after November 2023. A more specific date will be announced later as it will depend on the timing of other flights to the ISS and on-orbit activity plans.
Axiom Mission 2 must head to the space station first before Axiom Mission 3 can start. It is also a crewed mission operated by the company and is scheduled to launch in the second quarter of 2023. As the name suggests, this isn’t the company’s first astronaut mission to an orbital laboratory. NASA also chose it first. Commercial manned flight to the station. Axiom Mission 1 He launched in April 2022 and docked with the ISS for his 15 days.
At this time, Ax-3 is still in its early stages. A private space company, with a NASA astronaut as mission commander, must submit a proposed crew of four and his two backup crews to the agency for review. (Ax-2, for example, was led by his former NASA astronaut, Peggy Annette Whitson.) Based on the agreement of the parties, NASA may request certain tasks or scientific experiments to be performed onboard. You may ask the commander. Meanwhile, Axiom Space astronauts will be able to use NASA cargo and other orbital resources on a daily basis.
In addition to choosing Axiom Space for these private launches, NASA also chose the company to develop the Moonwalk spacesuit for its Artemis program.The agency will unveil the suit today at an event that will be livestreamed NASA website.