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vendredi 8 avril 2022

The Axiom-1 crew launches today—are these guys tourists, astronauts, or what?

The Axiom-1 crew launches today—are these guys tourists, astronauts, or what?
vendredi 8 avril 2022
The Axiom-1 mission will fly on the fifth mission of this Falcon 9 rocket first stage.

Enlarge / The Axiom-1 mission will fly on the fifth mission of this Falcon 9 rocket first stage. (credit: NASA)

A crew of four private citizens is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station today on a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center.

This is the Axiom-1 mission, named after the private company, Axiom Space, that organized the flight. This mission will make history, as it is the first completely private mission to the International Space Station. The orbiting laboratory was created decades ago to foster international cooperation in space at a time when spaceflight was almost solely the province of large, powerful nations.

But the laboratory, at least for the United States, has become an important beachhead in low Earth orbit for commercial activity. NASA astronauts have for years conducted private research experiments, deployed CubeSats, and performed other government-sanctioned activities to foster commercial spaceflight.

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