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Axiom-1 Mission
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Yazata Offline Apr 7, 2022 04:38 AM
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.
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Yazata Offline Apr 8, 2022 04:00 AM
Axiom-1 press conference today.

Chris Gebhardt was there and reports:

https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/15...7329959948

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.
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Yazata Offline Apr 8, 2022 04:53 PM (This post was last modified: Apr 8, 2022 07:57 PM by Yazata.)
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!
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C C Offline Apr 9, 2022 02:44 AM
(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.
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Yazata Offline Apr 21, 2022 05:15 AM
Ax-1 departure from the ISS now scheduled for Thursday 4-21 at 8 PM EDT
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Yazata Offline Apr 24, 2022 04:26 AM (This post was last modified: Apr 25, 2022 02:57 AM by Yazata.)
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/...7592022019
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