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Axiom-1 Mission - Yazata - Apr 7, 2022
This will be an all-private crewed mission to and from the International Space Station on a Crew Dragon and Falcon 9.
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1511784137861988356
https://www.axiomspace.com/news/ax1-april-8
Currently scheduled to launch Friday April 8, 11:17 AM EDT with a crew of four.
SpaceX successfully conducted a pre-flght static fire today of their booster B1062 which will be launching on its fifth flight. It previously flew Inspiration-1 (Jared Isaacman's crewed flight), two GPS satellite launches and one batch of Starlinks.
RE: Axiom-1 Mission - Yazata - Apr 8, 2022
Axiom-1 press conference today.
Chris Gebhardt was there and reports:
https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/1512143727329959948
Flight Readiness Review completed, mission cleared to launch.
This will be both a science mission and a practice run for Axiom Space cooperation with NASA. Axiom is already constructing new modules that will be added to the International Space Station. The plan is that when the ISS is retired and deorbited around 2030, the Axiom modules will split off and become their own stand-alone commercial space station.
Astronauts on the ISS are excited about their new visitors.
The Crew Dragon 'Endeavor' will dock at the Harmony node-2 Zenith docking port. This port is on the opposite 'Zenith' side of the Harmony module from Earth.
Of the four Axiom astronauts, one will sleep on Endeavor, one will sleep in an airlock, and two will sleep in the Columbus module.
NASA anticipates more of these private missions to the ISS and part of the purpose of this flight is to evaluate how well it works.
And it's a science mission so the Axiom astronauts are fully trained on the scientific work they are going to do.
RE: Axiom-1 Mission - Yazata - Apr 8, 2022
RE: Axiom-1 Mission - Yazata - Apr 8, 2022
Beautiful launch!
The four astronauts are safely in orbit and B1062 made a perfect landing on JRTI (Edit - I lied - B1062.6 landed on ASOG) It was picture perfect though.
I love our broomsticks!
RE: Axiom-1 Mission - C C - Apr 9, 2022
(Apr 8, 2022 04:00 AM)Yazata Wrote: [...] Axiom is already constructing new modules that will be added to the International Space Station. The plan is that when the ISS is retired and deorbited around 2030, the Axiom modules will split off and become their own stand-alone commercial space station. [...]
Not quite the "ship of Theseus" in space, I guess, but arguably rubbing shoulders with it.
RE: Axiom-1 Mission - Yazata - Apr 10, 2022
Axiom-1 has arrived at the ISS and has successfully docked
https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1512744157999206400
https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1512753195117953028
https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1512768870175621120
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1512770435477172228
https://twitter.com/Axiom_Space/status/1512797778086408203
https://twitter.com/Axiom_Space/status/1512829576652668937
RE: Axiom-1 Mission - Yazata - Apr 20, 2022
The all-private Axiom-1 crew and their Space Station hosts held a little farewell ceremony today. But after it was over, their departure was pushed back a day because of bad weather in the landing zone.
https://twitter.com/Axiom_Space/status/1516487262363697159
(Axiom photo)
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![[Image: FQp2HpXXEAUZC2Z?format=jpg&name=medium]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQp2HpXXEAUZC2Z?format=jpg&name=medium)
RE: Axiom-1 Mission - Yazata - Apr 21, 2022
Ax-1 departure from the ISS now scheduled for Thursday 4-21 at 8 PM EDT
RE: Axiom-1 Mission - Yazata - Apr 24, 2022
They keep pushing the Ax-1 departure back because of weather.
Kathy Lueders is now saying that undocking is set for 8:55 pm EDT on Sunday April 24, with splashdown set for 1 PM EDT Monday April 25. Primary splashdown site is in the Atlantic off Florida, but secondary is in the Gulf of Mexico. There will be SpaceX recovery ships both places.
This makes things a little tight for Wednesday April 27's Crew-4 launch. Kathy says she thinks that they can squeeze it in, but I suspect that it will be pushed back as well to give them more room to review the Ax-1 data. Weather will continue to be a concern for Crew-4 too.
https://twitter.com/KathyLueders/status/1517882407592022019
RE: Axiom-1 Mission - Yazata - Apr 25, 2022
Ax-1 has departed the Space Station
https://twitter.com/Axiom_Space/status/1518398829879513089
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1518397056955535360