“What do you hope to accomplish in the next 10 years?” is a familiar question, one often asked at job interviews or when starting a new company. Axiom Space was founded in 2016, so it’s coming up on that 10-year mark — and the Houston-based company has already checked off a lot of boxes that were […]
SpaceX will launch an astronaut crew to the International Space Station Wednesday (Jan. 17) on the private Ax-3 mission for Axiom Space, but if you’re hoping to watch it live online, you’ll need to know where and when. And for that, space fans, we’ve got what you need. The Ax-3 mission, Axiom Space’s third commercial […]
Axiom Space’s Ax-3 mission is the third-ever private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule on Jan. 17 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and is expected to return about two weeks later. The crew includes Ax-3 mission commander and […]
Houston-based Axiom Space is poised for the company’s third private astronaut launch to space. Ax-3 will carry a four-person, all-European crew on a roughly two-week mission to conduct research aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The quartet includes Ax-3 mission commander and former NASA astronaut Michael “LA” López-Alegría, mission specialist Walter Villadei, who also flew […]
The United States’ most experienced astronaut has hung up her flight suit. Peggy Whitson, who has spent 675 days in space over the course of four missions — three for NASA and one commercial — came to Space Center Houston on Monday (Jan. 8) for the reveal of her Axiom Space flight suit as it […]