For this Tuesday, after a 10-day stay on the International Space Station (ISS), the departure of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with Ax-1 mission commander Michael López-Alegría, pilot Larry Connor and the mission specialists Eytan Stibbe and Mark Pathy, back to Earth. The spacecraft will splash down this Wednesday off the coast of Florida.
The Ax-1 spacecraft will return to Earth with nearly a hundred kilograms of scientific material and supplies, including NASA experiments, hardware and commercial science payloads.
Ax-1 is the first of several proposed Axiom Space missions to the ISS and a important step towards Axiom Station, the world’s first private space station, which will serve as a center in low Earth orbit for research and exploration.
The Axiom Space company is guided by the vision of a prosperous home in space that benefits all humans, everywhere. Leading human spaceflight service provider and human-qualified space infrastructure developer, Axiom operates end-to-end missions to the ISS today while privately developing its successor: a permanent commercial destination in Earth orbit that will sustain human growth outside of Earth and bring incalculable benefits to the planet.