The all-civilian Ax-1 mission crew docked at the International Space Station early Saturday morning, marking the first time private citizens visited the spacecraft.
."Mission teams worked to route video using a SpaceX ground station to the crew on the space station allowing Dragon to proceed with docking," aVideo posted on Twitter by Axiom Space, the Houston-based company that organized the flight, showed the space station astronauts welcoming and hugging the Ax-1 crew. They will be aboard the space station for the next eight days.
The Ax-1 crew inside SpaceX's Dragon capsule. From left: Mark Pathy, Larry Connor, Michael López-Alegría, and Eytan Stibbe.The Ax-1 crew is led by Michael López-Alegría, a retired NASA astronaut who now serves as the vice president of business development for Axiom Space. He's joined by three paying customers: American real estate investor Larry Connor, Canadian businessman Mark Pathy and Eytan Stibbe, a former fighter pilot from Israel.
Axiom Space said the mission is a “precursor” to commercializing low-Earth orbit, and said it intends to fly at least three other commercial flights to the space station. It is also planning to construct its own privately-funded space station in orbit.
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