Ax-1 Crew, First Private Mission to ISS, Holds Press Conference

Name: Ax-1 Crew, First Private Mission to ISS, Holds Press Conference
Uploaded: 2022-04-01T17:09+0000
Duration: 1 s
Description: The space mission, with an international crew of four, will conduct scientific experiments as part of its forthcoming trip to the International Space Station (ISS).

17:09 GMT, 1 April 2022

The space mission, with an international crew of four, will conduct scientific experiments as part of its forthcoming trip to the International Space Station (ISS).

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The crew of Axiom Mission 1 or Ax-1, the first private mission to the International Space Station, holds a virtual pre-flight press conference on Friday, 1 April.

On 6 April, SpaceX and the private spaceflight company Axiom Space will send four private space travellers to the ISS.

The four crew members will be commanded by veteran Spanish-American astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria. They will be carried on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft launched on top of a Falcon 9 rocket.

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