The all-private Axiom mission to the International Space Station | News Blurb

SpaceX is launching another all-private mission, this time to the International Space Station. Known as Axiom Mission 1, or Ax-1, this is the first flight to the $150 billion outpost with no government astronauts aboard.

Current launch time: 15:17 UTC (11:17 a.m. EDT) April 8, 2022.
Estimated docking at ISS: ~10:45 UTC (~6:45 a.m. EDT) April 9, 2022.
Undocking and splashdown: NET April 17, 2022. Time is to be determined.

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00:00 | Intro
00:57 | Mission overview
02:53 | Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria
03:58 | Pilot Larry Connor
05:06 | Mission specialists Mark Pathy and Eytan Stibbe
06:08 | Research planned
08:37 | Future significance

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This is the first all-private mission to the ISS! Will you be watching? If so, from where?

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I wish you a good travel too the Internatinal Space Station.Lovley Regards from Elfriede Svoboda from Vienna