The first all-private astronaut mission to the International Space Station docked Saturday, about twenty-one hours after its liftoff from Kennedy Space Center.
docked Saturday, about twenty-one hours after its liftoff from Kennedy Space Center.
The trip marks the fifth time that Axiom-1 mission Commander Michael López-Alegría has made the trip to space – in three different spacecraft, having previously flown in the space shuttle and Russian Soyuz capsule. Crew members of the Axiom Space private astronaut AX-1 mission are pictured in a SpaceX Crew Dragon training capsule before their launch to the International Space Station scheduled to occur no earlier than April 6, 2022.
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