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Axiom Mission 1 (or Ax-1) [3] was a privately funded and operated crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission was operated by Axiom Space out of Axiom's Mission Control Center MCC-A [4] in Houston, Texas. The flight launched on 8 April 2022 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. [5]
Axiom Space, Inc., also known as Axiom Space, is an American privately funded space infrastructure developer headquartered in Houston, Texas. Founded in 2016 by Michael T. Suffredini and Kam Ghaffarian, the company first flew a spaceflight in 2022: Axiom Mission 1, the first commercially crewed private spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS).
Eytan Meir Stibbe is an Israeli former fighter pilot, businessman and commercial astronaut. [1]In November 2020 he paid Axiom Space to become a space tourist on a ten day mission to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on Axiom Mission 1, a private crewed orbital spaceflight.
The mission was later delayed again because the docking port needed for arrival (Harmony zenith port) was occupied by Crew Dragon Endeavour on Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1). Ax-1's departure, originally set for 19 April, was delayed until 25 April due to bad weather in the recovery zones in the Atlantic Ocean. [7]
Axiom Mission 1 Larry Connor (born January 7, 1950) is an American real estate and technology business person, as well as a private astronaut certified by NASA. [ 1 ] Connor is the head of the Connor Group, a real estate investment firm located in Dayton, Ohio .
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.
This mission was the first ocean-based recovery of an American crewed spacecraft since 1975, when the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission splashed down. [24] Also, this mission was the first crew recovery to occur in the Gulf of Mexico. [25] On the Demo-2 mission, Endeavour was in space for 63 days. The spacecraft was rated to spend 119 days in ...
Axiom Mission 3 (or Ax-3) was a private spaceflight to the International Space Station. The flight launched on 18 January 2024, [1] and lasted for 21 days, successfully splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean. [3] It was operated by Axiom Space and used a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. [4]