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Axiom Mission 2 (or Ax-2) was a private crewed spaceflight operated by Axiom Space. Ax-2 was launched on 21 May 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon 9, successfully docking with the International Space Station (ISS) on 22 May. [3] [2] After eight days docked to the ISS, the Dragon crew capsule Freedom undocked and returned to Earth twelve hours later. [4]
[2] [10] [11] The mission launched on 21 May 2023. [12] He was also the back-up pilot of Axiom Mission 1. [13] During their week-long mission, Shoffner and Whitson will conduct single-cell genome sequencing demonstrations on the International Space Station for 10x Genomics. [11]
Axiom Mission 2 (May 21, 2023) First male Saudi to ISS. Saudi Arabia Rayyanah Barnawi: Axiom Mission 2 (May 21, 2023) First Saudi woman in space; second Arab woman in space; third Muslim woman in space. Turkey Alper Gezeravcı: Axiom Mission 3 (18 January, 2024) First Turk in space and to ISS. Turkey Tuva Cihangir Atasever: Galactic 07 (07 June ...
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried a former Nasa astronaut and three civilian customers for a week-long stay aboard the ISS. It is the second private mission to the space station, following Axiom ...
By the time the MS-22/23 crew returned to Earth on 27 September 2023, which was the end of Expedition 69, they had spent more than a year in space due to their mission extension. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The manifest changes do not affect US crew rotation plans, where SpaceX Crew-5 was replaced by Crew-6 in February during Expedition 68 .
The move comes after India and the United States entered into a Space Flight Agreement in August to work alongside Axiom's upcoming mission to the ISS. ... $126 million in 2023, which was up 7% ...
In late 2022, Axiom's MCC-A became a certified ISS partner Mission Control Center, connected to NASA's ISS program, joining a small handful of International partner MCCs and SpaceX's MCC. In May 2023, Axiom Space flew their second mission to ISS, Ax-2, supported entirely out of MCC-A by an Axiom Space flight control team of 6-10 flight controllers.
Rayyanah Barnawi (Arabic: ريانة برناوي; born September 1988) [1] [2] is a biomedical researcher [3] and astronaut. She is the first Saudi female astronaut, selected for Axiom Mission 2 as a mission specialist [4] by the Saudi Space Commission; her selection was officially announced on February 12, 2023. [5]