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The science that the company's first private astronauts will do when they travel to the International Space Station next year is being revealed. Stem cells are being used to gauge how space impacts aging as well as perform a two-way hologram projection demonstration.
The experiments will be performed by four crew members who are part of the company's Ax-1 mission to the International Space Station. The crew will fly to the space station in a Crew Dragon capsule. It is the first of many Crew Dragon flights that the company bought from the company in order to send people back and forth to the space station.
Michael Lpez-Alegra, the mission's commander and a former NASA astronaut, is one of the four fliers on board. The three people who paid the most for ride on board are: Larry Connor, an American nonprofit activist investor; Mark Pathy, a Canadian investor; and Eytan Stibbe, an Israeli investor and former Israeli fighter pilot. They helped to decide on the 25 research experiments they will be doing while on board the mission.
The crew doesn't really want a lot of spare time.
Christian Maender, director of in-space manufacturing and research at Axiom Space, told The Verge that the crew don't want a lot of spare time. They are planning on filling most of their time with science. They just expressed an interest in taking opportunities to look at the views a little bit.
The International Space Station is going to be reached in two days by the Ax-1 rocket, which is set to launch on top of a Falcon 9 rocket. The crew will spend eight days on board the space station conducting their research alongside the NASA astronauts, German astronauts, and Russian cosmonauts currently living on the space station. It will take up to 100 hours to complete.
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The crew is from L to R: Michael Lpez-Alegra, Mark Pathy, Larry Connor, and Eytan Stibbe.
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Stem cells will be used to study how space travel affects heart health and senescent cells, which no longer divide and grow. Pathy has up to 12 experiments on his plate. NASA has demonstrated a way to bring up an image of someone on the ground onto the space station using a headset. Pathy will show that a two-way dialogue is possible, sending his image down to Earth while the person he is talking to comes to him on the station.
Maender says that it plays into opportunities for more longer duration spaceflight and more deep spaceflight, where you are really talking about wanting to create a human connection between your crew and someone on the planet.
The Rakia mission will be named after the dome created by God on the second day after the firmament, which protects life on Earth, according to Axiom. The goal of his research is to connect the younger generation in Israel by doing science and artistic endeavors. Lpez-Alegra will be a human subject for some of the experiments that are aimed at learning more about how space affects the body.
The first mission is called Ax-1. The company was founded in 2016 by Mike Suffredini, the former program manager at NASA, who wanted to build private space stations for customers to visit to do research. NASA has a contract with Axiom to attach a module to the International Space Station as early as 2024, testing out the company's habitat technology. A free-flying space station called "Axiom Station" is part of the larger goal.
With that larger target in mind, the follow-up missions of the Crew Dragon and Ax-1 will help the company better understand how to get people to space safely and what kinds of work they can do there. Maender says that it is a demonstration mission for them. We are showing how we can open up more opportunities for research in microgravity beyond what can be done on the on the ISS today.
