Posted on 04/10/2022 1:06:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) astronauts Michael Lopez-Alegria, Larry Connor, Eytan Stibbe, and Mark Pathy are now aboard the International Space Station following Crew Dragon’s hatch opening at 10:13 a.m. EDT, Saturday, April 9. It is the first mission with an entirely private crew to arrive at the orbiting laboratory.
After a journey of almost 21 hours, Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) astronauts Michael Lopez-Alegria, Larry Connor, Eytan Stibbe, and Mark Pathy arrived at the International Space Station at 8:29 a.m. EDT Saturday, April 9. Crew Dragon Endeavour docked to the orbital complex while the spacecraft were flying about 260 miles above the central Atlantic Ocean.
Dragon Endeavour’s docking was delayed approximately 45 minutes as the space station teams, including mission controllers at NASA and SpaceX, worked to troubleshoot an issue preventing the crew members on station from receiving views from Dragon’s center line camera of the Harmony’s modules docking port. Mission teams worked to route video using a SpaceX ground station to the crew on the space station allowing Dragon to proceed with docking.
Following Dragon’s link up to the Harmony module, NASA astronaut and station commander Tom Marshburn pressurized the space in between the Dragon and station hatches and performed a leak check before opening the hatches to welcome the private astronaut crew.
The Axiom crew are joining Expedition 67 crew members, including NASA astronauts Marshburn, Raja Chari, and Kayla Barron, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Sergey Korsokov, and Denis Matveev.
When the Axiom Space Mission 1 (Ax-1) arrived at the International Space Station, it was the first mission with an entirely private crew to arrive at the orbiting laboratory. It represents both a culmination of NASA’s efforts to foster a commercial market in low-Earth orbit and a beginning of a new era of space exploration that enables more people to fly on more kinds of missions.
The Ax-1 crew will spend more than one week aboard the orbiting laboratory conducting science, education, and commercial activities.
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Hmmm... Vicious brawl is sure slow developing...
They didn’t kick out the Ruskies?
SpaceX currently has 2 Crew Dragon capsules docked to the ISS, Endurance and Endeavor. Later this year, SpaceX is scheduled to carry it’s first Russian cosmonaut to ISS, along with American and Japanese astronauts. Elon Musk is going to dominate the commercial space business.
$55 million per seat ...
Kayla Barron from my grandkids’ high school.
It’s been a big year for space tourism. The main issue is the ISS isn’t set-up as a holiday destination.
I wonder how long it will be until we get our first space hotel?
And 38k a day for staying on the station
And $7 million for training. All ours for a mere $100,000,000. Plus the additional $38m for each of the following days. Ah, what’s another 100million? just pocket change to them.
I wish I could buy stock in SpaceX.
Elie Mystal: “All whites! And not a single African-American in that whole crew! I’ll bet they are plannin’ on celebratin’ slavery by havin’ a cross burning tonight on that ol’ space station! And plannin’ on endangering the lives of the brothas and sistuhs everywhere!”
Bizarre post, FRiend.
Where the black folks at?
Good grief. What kind of twisted mind must it take to think about race when reading an article about space tourism.
The kind of twisted mind like Joy Reid, who has folks like Elie Mystal on her show all the time making stupid comments like I posted above.
That place must be stinky!
There are people - of varying races - who are absolutely
obsessed by the concept of race. So it seems only
logical that this would leak out into the general society
and "color" discourse on any and all topics. Right?
Is this fool aware that Ax 1 is a privately funded mission and their astronauts paid their own way?
No one is stopping black billionaires from paying their own way to space if they want to.
Out shooting people dead in Chicago, Baltimore etc.
Axiom paids for training, the 3 crew paid 55 million each
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