A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule, are organized to have four crew members on Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2) to the Worldwide Space Station, at the Kennedy Area Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. Could 21, 2023.
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SpaceX’s up coming personal flight to the Global Space Station awaited takeoff Sunday, weather conditions and rocket permitting.
The travellers contain Saudi Arabia’s initial astronauts in decades, as properly as a Tennessee businessman who began his personal athletics auto racing workforce. They will be led by a retired NASA astronaut who now works for the organization that arranged the 10-day vacation.
It’s the 2nd charter flight arranged by Houston-based Axiom Room. The enterprise would not say how much the most current tickets expense it beforehand cited for every-seat rates of $55 million.
With its Falcon rocket presently on the pad, SpaceX specific a liftoff late Sunday afternoon from NASA’s Kennedy Area Centre. It truly is the very same place where by Saudi Arabia’s first astronaut, a prince, soared in 1985.
Representing the Saudi Arabian governing administration this time are Rayyanah Barnawi, a stem cell researcher established to become the kingdom’s to start with girl in area, and Royal Saudi Air Pressure fighter pilot Ali al-Qarni.
Rounding out the crew: John Shoffner, the racecar buff and Peggy Whitson, who retains the U.S. file for most amassed time in space at 665 days.