Watch Live: Axiom Space Launches Its Second Private Mission to the ISS

Axiom Space is gearing up for nan motorboat of its second backstage unit to nan International Space Station (ISS). The 4 astronauts will walk a small complete a week conducting experiments wrong nan orbital lab.

A Falcon 9 rocket will nonstop up nan unit wrong a SpaceX Dragon capsule nicknamed Freedom. The rocket is scheduled to blast disconnected Sunday astatine 5:37 p.m. ET from Launch Complex 39A astatine NASA’s Kennedy Space Center successful Florida. Live sum of nan liftoff will statesman astatine 5 p.m. ET connected NASA’s website, arsenic good arsenic nan agency’s YouTube channel, while Axiom Space will besides broadcast it unrecorded done its website. You tin tune successful astatine nan provender below.

The Dragon capsule is group to dock pinch nan ISS Harmony module connected Monday astatine 9:24 a.m., according to NASA.

The Axiom Mission 2, aliases Ax-2, unit includes Commander Peggy Whitson, a seasoned NASA astronaut, Pilot John Shoffner, a abstraction enthusiast who purchased a ticket for nan ngo successful 2021, and Mission Specialists Ali Alqarni and Rayyanah Barnawi, members of Saudi Arabia’s first people of astronauts.

The unit will walk astir 8 days connected committee nan abstraction station, moving alongside nan ISS unit members. Ax-2 unit members will behaviour a assortment of technological investigation and experiments, including 1 to analyse nan effects of microgravity connected nan production of stem cells.

Ax-2 is simply a travel up to Axiom Space’s first ngo to nan abstraction station, which launched successful April 2022. The backstage institution is already readying for nan motorboat of its 3rd ngo to nan ISS, presently scheduled for later this year.

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