NASA & Axiom Space Just Announced A Second Private Astronaut Mission

Not long ago, Axiom space made history with the successful completion of the Ax-1 Mission. Specifically, Ax-1 marked the first all private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. Here we watched 4 different astronauts launch on top of a Falcon 9 and reach the ISS in a Dragon capsule. Now in 2022, the company is ready to do it again.

Just yesterday both NASA and Axiom Space announced they had signed a second private astronaut mission planned for 2023. The mission will launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and travel to the space station. Once docked, the Axiom astronauts are scheduled to spend 10 days aboard the orbiting laboratory. While this is exciting, in reality, this is another important step towards Axiom station and the future of accessing space.

Axiom Space and NASA have far greater goals regarding operations in space and future space stations. The first Axiom mission and the next are working toward growing the economy in low-Earth orbit. Here I will go more in-depth into the details of this mission, why it’s important to the future of the space industry, the difference from Ax-1, and more.

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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:08 - Ax-2 Announcement
4:03 - Future of Accessing Space

[deltav]

Great job! I really hope these new commercial human Spaceflight companies do well!

[WWeronko]

Before ISS is deorbited I do hope Axiom Space has their station functional. Orbital Reef, even larger than Axiom's station is planned to be functional by 2027. If both stations are in operation on their time-lines, the loss of ISS will be not as traumatic with only a China Station functioning. Developing a space economy with a low cost access of Starship should making a profit possible by in orbit activities. The space future is bright.

[kiwigurn]

Again great to see what Axium and others are up to. I'm sure that they will take a leaf out of SX book and rapidly reiterate, like Relativity