News Archive / Tagged: Axiom Space

• Northrop, Nanoracks team on commercial space station project

  Derek RichardsonOctober 9th, 2023

  Northrop Grumman has decided to withdraw from an agreement with NASA to build a commercial space station and will instead join forces with Nanoracks to develop "Starlab."

• Axiom-2 crew back on Earth after capsule splashes down in Gulf

  Derek RichardsonMay 31st, 2023

  After nearly 10 days in space, the all-private Axiom-2 astronauts are back on Earth, having splashed down in their Dragon capsule in the water off the coast of Florida.

• Axiom-2 crew reaches International Space Station

  Derek RichardsonMay 22nd, 2023

  The four-person private Axiom-2 mission has docked with the International Space Station to begin an eight-day science mission aboard the outpost.

• ‘Let Freedom fly’: Private Axiom-2 mission launches to ISS

  Derek RichardsonMay 21st, 2023

  SpaceX launches Axiom Space’s second all-private crewed mission to the International Space Station using its Crew Dragon spacecraft.

• Russia agrees to extend International Space Station operations

  Derek RichardsonMay 1st, 2023

  All five of the International Space Station partner agencies have now agreed to operate the outpost through at least 2028.

• Spacesuit prototype revealed for Artemis 3 Moon landing

  Derek RichardsonMarch 15th, 2023

  When NASA astronauts return to the surface of the Moon in the next several years, they’ll be using a spacesuit built by Axiom Space.

• Crew-4 astronauts set to fly to International Space Station

  Theresa CrossApril 27th, 2022

  The astronauts of the Crew-4 mission are set to fly to the International Space Station in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft less than two days after the completion of the all-private Axiom Space mission.

• All-private Axiom Space astronauts return to Earth

  Derek RichardsonApril 25th, 2022

  Four private Axiom Space astronauts returned to Earth in a SpaceX Dragon capsule after spending two weeks aboard the International Space Station performing science and outreach activities.

• All-private Axiom Space astronauts dock with Space Station

  Derek RichardsonApril 9th, 2022

  Four private Axiom Space astronauts docked to the International Space Station after launching atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket less than 24 hours earlier.

• SpaceX launches 1st all-private astronaut mission to the ISS

  Theresa CrossApril 8th, 2022

  Launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket left Earth on an all-private astronaut mission for Axiom Space.

• Axiom Space contracted to build an orbital film studio

  Derek RichardsonJanuary 20th, 2022

  Plans are in the works add the first space-based “multipurpose entertainment and content studio” to the International Space Station.

• Orbital space tourism poised to take off later this year

  Theresa CrossMay 26th, 2021

  Within a span of about six months, a dozen new spaceflight participants could fly into orbit on four space tourism flights beginning as early as September.

• Axiom, NASA agree to 1st private astronaut mission to ISS

  Theresa CrossMay 12th, 2021

  NASA and Axiom Space announced May 10, 2021, an order for the first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.

• NASA assigns Mark Vande Hei to Soyuz MS-18 mission to ISS

  Derek RichardsonMarch 10th, 2021

  NASA has assigned astronaut Mark Vande Hei to the Soyuz MS-18 mission for a roughly six-month trip to the International Space Station.