The first all-private crewed mission to the International Space Station is ready to fly, mission leaders announced today.
A crew of four, led by a former NASA astronaut, is set to launch on a 10-day mission to the space station tomorrow. They are on the first crewed flight for Texas-based space company Axiom Space.
This is a historic event, and we are super happy to be here to report our readiness and willingness to move forward with a launch tomorrow.
The launch of Ax-1 is scheduled to take place at 11:17 a.m. Pad 39A is located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Florida's Space Coast. You can watch the live broadcast on Space.com or on the SpaceX website, which will begin at about 7:55 a.m. The sun rises at 1 pm.
The private mission to the space station is live.
Michael Lopez-Alegr will be the leader of the Ax-1 mission. He will be joined by three paying customers: pilot Larry Connor and mission specialists Eytan and Mark Pathy. The group will be on a 10-day mission that will include eight days aboard the International Space Station.
The space station's zenith port is set to be docked with the Ax-1 on Saturday.
The weather is expected to improve ahead of tomorrow's launch, according to Brian Cizek, a launch weather officer with the U.S. Space Force.
The good news is that the weather tomorrow and through the weekend will be better than today. He said that high pressure will roll in tomorrow and through the weekend and that the weather will be better here at Kennedy Space Center.
There are still concerns about the wind, but there is a small chance that weather constraints will be violated at the planned launch time tomorrow.
The team members have stressed that the mission is not a flight or a ride of any kind. The crew has trained extensively for the event. They have practiced how to conduct personal-hygiene and other everyday activities in space as well as emergency procedures aboard the station, maintenance and repair activities, outreach and documentation and scientific experimentation. The crew is bringing over 25 different scientific experiments to work on during their eight-day station stay.
They want to be the best possible private astronauts that you can imagine, and they have trained in that way, according to the operations director at Axiom Space. They want to be good houseguests.
As commander of the space station, he will be able to guide his crewmates and support them in minimizing disruptions.
Our goal was to set the bar very high and demonstrate to everyone involved in the world that it can be done.
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