Ax-2 is carrying a Saudi Arabian woman to space for the first time ever.
Ax-2 is the second spaceflight for Freedom, which also flew SpaceX'sThis is Axiom's second privately crewed launch to the ISS, afterin April 2022, but it comes with a lot of firsts. Whitson, who is Axiom's director of human spaceflight, is the first woman to command a private crewed mission to space.
During their eight-day stay on the space station, the Ax-2 crewmembers will live and work alongside the seven astronauts currently inhabiting the ISS but will be conducting independent research investigations. One Ax-2 experiment, organized by the Translational Research Institute for Space Health , involves a series of tests and measurements of their own bodies.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fires its engines for landing after launching the four-person Ax-2 private astronaut mission toward the International Space Station on May 21, 2023. "We did learn a lot about how to train these private astronaut mission crews," he added, emphasizing that Axiom's focus is on"how to train [private astronauts] better, what to focus on, what specific refreshers are important and how to better timeline the mission. Each of these missions we expect to be successful, but you also expect to kind of push the envelope on what we did before.
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