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161237370 story After startup Axiom Space brokered the first visit to the Space Station by an all-private crew, the AX-1 mission turned into a "longer-than-expected" stay, reports CNN. It launched on April 8 and "was originally billed as a 10-day mission," CNN notes, "but delays have extended the mission by about a week."
The four crew members — Michael López-Alegría, a former NASA astronaut-turned-Axiom employee who is commanding the mission; Israeli businessman Eytan Stibbe; Canadian investor Mark Pathy; and Ohio-based real estate magnate Larry Connor — are slated to leave the space station aboard their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on Sunday at 8:55 pm ET. That's another 24-hour delay from what NASA and Axiom were targeting on Saturday. They now plan to spend a day free flying through orbit before plummeting back into the atmosphere and parachuting to a splashdown landing off the coast of Florida at about 1 pm ET Monday, according to a tweet from Kathy Lueders, the head of NASA's human spaceflight program... During their first 12 days on the space station, the group stuck to a schedule that included 14 hours of activities, including scientific research that was designed by various research hospitals, universities, tech companies and more. They used video conferencing with children and students. The weather delays gave them more time to absorb the remarkable views of the blue planet and review the vast amount of work that was successfully completed during the mission.
It is not the first time that paying customers have visited the International Space Station, as Russia has sold seats on its spaceship to wealthy thrill seekers in the past. AX-1 is the first mission with a crew entirely comprised of private citizens with no active members of a government astronaut corps accompanying them in the capsule. It is the first time that private citizens have traveled to the International Space Station.
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