A retired astronaut, a wealthy adventurer and two Saudi astronauts are set for launch to the International Space Station.
Peggy Whitson, America's most experienced astronaut with 665 days in space and 10 spacewalks over three stays aboard the International Space Station, is poised to build on her legacy as one of the consensus"GOATs" — greatest of all time — in the American space program., Whitson, a former chief of NASA's astronaut corps, last flew in space in 2017 after completing a 289-day station flight. She never expected to fly in space again.
It is the second"private astronaut mission," or PAM, to the International Space Station chartered by Axiom and sanctioned by NASA, which is trying to encourage private-sector development of low-Earth orbit.Axiom Space "This is a great opportunity for me to represent the country, to represent their dreams. ... This is a dream come true for everyone."
Assuming an on-time launch Sunday, Whitson and Shoffner will monitor an automated rendezvous with the space station, catching up and moving in for docking at the Harmony module's space-facing port at 9:24 a.m. Monday. For a day-late launch on Monday, docking would be expected around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Barnawi said"we are here as STEM educators for the kids to be to math and science, technology, to know that they can do more." "For the galley and the potty, both essential functions, obviously, they've got a tremendous amount of training," Hassmann said."But on orbit, once they reach ISS, the first time they use each of these things, first time they prepare their meals in the galley, before they use the toilet for the first time, they're going to get a from the ISS crew."
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