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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).
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 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]
NASA, besides furnishing the launch site at Cape Canaveral, assumes responsibility for the astronauts once they rendezvous with the space station. Axiom, an eight-year-old venture headed by NASA's ...
The four Axiom-1 astronauts who launched from the Kennedy Space Center on Friday arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday.
Friday, SpaceX sent three paying customers and one former professional astronaut to the space station aboard the Axiom-1 private spaceflight mission.
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]
Axiom Space’s Ax-1 mission will dock with the International Space Station for 8 days before returning to earth. ‘A new era’: SpaceX launches Axiom Space’s 1st all-private mission to the ...