A former NASA astronauts and three paying customers will be on a journey to the International Space Station. Today is the day that the mission, called Ax-1, lifts off.
The first crewed mission organized by Texas-based company Axiom Space will kick off today after a delay of NASA's Artemis 1 wet dress rehearsal. A 10-day mission to the space station will be commanded by a former NASA astronaut. The mission will also fly paying passengers.
The launch of Ax-1 is set for today. Pad 39A is located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Florida's Space Coast. The crew will take off on a ride atop a rocket.
You can watch the launch live on Space.com or on the SpaceX website. The sun rises and sets in the afternoon.
There are live updates on the private mission to space station.
The space station will be docking with the Ax-1 at approximately 7:30 a.m. tomorrow. The time is 1130 GMT. The crew of the space station will spend eight of the 10 days on the mission. This will be the first crewed mission for Axiom Space as well as the first fully private mission to the station.
When I was a kid, I was so inspired by the early manned missions that NASA had put in the first three.
He said that they are ready to fly.
The crewmates of López-Alegría will be taken to the space lab. The crew has completed a pre-flight gantlet, something that is routine for all astronauts across companies and space agencies. This protects the astronauts on the space station from any disease that could be carried with them.
The three paying crew members, who are thought to have paid about $55 million each for their seats, will also be joyriding. They will be carrying supplies and science experiments to the space station.
The brain headset from the Israeli startup that aims to study how the brain responds to spaceflight and living in space is one of the experiments. The experiments are being carried with him by a mission specialist on behalf of the Ilan Ramon Foundation, which he co-founded in memory of his friend. Ramon was the first Israeli to reach space.
The Ax-1 mission is a major first for the company, but it is part of a larger plan to create a commercial space station. The company says it will be the world's first commercial space station.
The first module will be sent to the International Space Station in 2024, followed by several more over the next few years. The company has said that these modules will eventually detach from the International Space Station and become a free-flying station.
The launch was delayed from April 6 to April 8 due to delays with NASA's Artemis 1 wet dress rehearsal. The wet dress is a rehearsal for launch that includes fully fueling up the rocket and conducting a countdown as well as a multitude of other steps to ensure that the actual launch day goes to plan, faced issues at the pad, and moved the fueling portion of the test from April 3 to April.
The vent valve that prevented the team from loading liquid hydrogen was configured in a closed position, which prevented it from being commanded to open. NASA said in a statement that the valve positioning has been corrected.
On April 5, mission team members announced in a news conference that the Artemis 1 activities would resume after the launch after the test activities were conducted on those two days.
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