The first completely private mission to the space station was successfully launched
The first completely private mission to the International space station was launched hours ago by Axium space and launched by the SpaceX rocket.
One The Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket launched the Ax-1 mission in cooperation with Axiom space Company today at 11:17 AM Eastern Time (19:47 Tehran time) from the Kennedy space Center. None of the four Ax-1 crews are government astronauts, so this is the first completely private manned mission to the International space Station. " A new chapter begins together. Good luck X-1!
With the perfect launch today, the crew officially embarked on a 10-day journey that will include an eight-day stay on the International space Station. The Dragon Ax-1 capsule is scheduled to be connected to the orbital laboratory tomorrow, April 9 (April 20) at around 07:45 AM (16:15 Tehran time). For this series of boosters, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket was launched, and this booster landed 9.5 minutes after taking off on the unmanned floating platform A Shortfall of Gravitas, which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
"It's been a year and a half or more of the very hard work that we basically designed the mission from the beginning," said Derek Hassmann, Axium Space's chief operating officer. "We did something we have never done before, and this is very valuable." Ax-1 by retired NASA astronaut Michael Lpez-Alegra Axiom commercial development is commanded. He was launched today alongside mission pilot Larry Connor and mission experts Mark Pathy and Eytan Stibbe.
Connor is a real estate entrepreneur He is a pilot who is familiar with 16 different aircraft. Patti is the CEO and CEO of the Canadian investment company MARVIK, and Steve is a founding partner of the Vital Capital Impact Investment Fund.
The three are estimated to have spent about $ 55 million each on the flight. However, it is emphasized that this is not a space tourism mission. The crew has spent hundreds of hours preparing for the flight and is scheduled to conduct a variety of tests for the future of space flights at the station.
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These experiments will study things like headsets to see how the brain behaves in space, monitoring aging, stem cells, and heart health. "This represents the first step, where a group of people who are not members of a government want to do meaningful work in low-Earth orbit and take advantage of this opportunity," said Michael Suffredini, CEO of AxiomSpace. Ax-1 is not just the first Axiom manned launch or the first completely private mission to the space station. For Axium Space, this is the first major step toward realizing its commercial low-Earth orbit (LEO) space station, which is set to be the first of its kind.
The company plans to launch its first commercial space station module in To launch in 2024. The module will be connected to the International space station and will gradually build the space station between 2024 and 2030 with the aim of separating and providing an independent low-Earth orbit.
Retirement of the International space station will be the destination of choice. "So this pioneering mission is the first of several that will eventually launch in 2024."
Although the X-1 is the first completely
private manned mission to the ISS, he added: This is
not the first full-fledged citizenship trip. This title is
in the possession of "Inspiration 4" mission, which took four
people into Earth orbit in a three-day mission by the Dragon
SpaceX spacecraft. Axiom space
Credit: Axiom space
Source: Space
