The Ax-1 private astronaut crew splashed down off the Florida coast in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft at 1:06 p.m. ET, Monday, April 25th. This occasion marks the completion of the first all-private astronaut mission ever to the International Space Station (ISS). Axiom Mission 1 Commander Michael López-Alegría, Pilot Larry Connor, and Mission Specialists Eytan Stibbe and Mark Pathy worked aboard the ISS laboratory for 15 days.
The Ax-1 mission supported 26 science payloads and technology demonstrations that had been developed with leading academic research partners around the world, including the Mayo Clinic, Montreal Children’s Hospital, Cleveland Clinic, and the Ramon Foundation. These four astronauts also shared their excitement of expanded access to space with a new generation of space explorers by participating in over 30 STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) engagements. In other news, Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster is still drifting somewhere in space.
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Axiom Space is incredibly proud of this mission and these astronauts, whose training rigor and commitment to a robust research portfolio set the standard for future private spaceflight. The Ax-1 mission is a pathfinder, showing the value of this new method of access to orbit and progress toward Axiom Station, a next generation platform in which the benefits and products of life, work and research in space will be available to a greater number of people,” said Michael Suffredini, President and CEO of Axiom Space.
