![]() The two mission specialists are Ali Alqarni and Rayyanah Barnawi from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).Īxiom Space’s Ax-2 mission continues progress toward the Axiom Station and a sustainable low-Earth orbit economy as humans venture farther for longer duration in space. NASA scrubbed its second attempt to launch its Artemis 1 test flight on a long-awaited mission to send an unpiloted Orion crew capsule on a 37-day trip around the moon and back. ![]() Aviator John Shoffner of Knoxville, Tennessee, serves as pilot. Launch coverage of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Axiom Mission 2 to the International Space Station. The four-person Axiom Space crew flew to space in SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft atop its Falcon 9 rocket to participate in the mission, including working and living on the orbiting laboratory to implement a full manifest of science, outreach, and commercial activities.Īxiom Space’s Director of Human Spaceflight Peggy Whitson, a former NASA astronaut and ISS commander, leads the mission. Elizabeth first got interested in space after watching the movie Apollo 13 in 1996, and still wants to be an astronaut someday.Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2) is Axiom Space’s second all-private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS), marking another pivotal step toward Axiom Station, the world’s first commercial space station and successor to the ISS. Elizabeth is also a post-secondary instructor in communications and science since 2015. Good morning and thank you for joining coverage of todays launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-114, NASAs Return to Flight mission. in Space Studies from the University of North Dakota, a Bachelor of Journalism from Canada's Carleton University and a Bachelor of History from Canada's Athabasca University. Her latest book, "Why Am I Taller?", is co-written with astronaut Dave Williams. in biochemistry and two stints as commander of the space station, Whitson, a former chief of NASA's astronaut corps, last flew in space in 2017 after completing a 289-day station. Liftoff is scheduled for May 21 at 5:37 PM EDT (21:37 UTC) from Launch Complex. Elizabeth's reporting includes multiple exclusives with the White House and Office of the Vice-President of the United States, an exclusive conversation with aspiring space tourist (and NSYNC bassist) Lance Bass, speaking several times with the International Space Station, witnessing five human spaceflight launches on two continents, working inside a spacesuit, and participating in a simulated Mars mission. The international crew of Axiom-2 (Ax-2) will fly onboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket. A support crew for the Space Launch System at the launch pad late Tuesday. She was contributing writer for for 10 years before joining full-time, freelancing since 2012. When NASA’s moon rocket sprang a fuel leak, the launch team called in the ‘red crew.’. The shuttle did, however, continue both times and helped complete the first phase of the ISS construction.Ģ021 also marks the tenth anniversary of the shuttle's retirement the last flight was STS-135, whose landing on Jis shown in the video (it's the one in darkness with the contrails flowing behind the shuttle's wings.) The shuttle's legacy still looms large after a decade, with Hubble still operating well thanks to the efforts of multiple astronaut repair and upgrade crews, and Lego releasing one of the iconic orbiters (Discovery) as a new set just a few weeks ago - not to mention the ISS thriving after more than 20 years of continuous human occupation.įollow Elizabeth Howell on Twitter Follow us on Twitter and on Facebook.Įlizabeth Howell (she/her), Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022 covering diversity, education and gaming as well. These incidents each forced suspensions of the program while NASA addressed the shuttle's underlying flaws. The clip also shows the different types of fuel that each rocket is propelled by. ![]() ![]() While the video does not make specific mention of this, the generation of operations also included two fatal accidents - Challenger in 1986 (which killed Onizuka, first teacher in space Christa McAuliffe and five others) and the Columbia disaster in 2003 that killed seven more astronauts. The video shows NASAs Saturn V and SLS rockets, the Space Shuttle, and SpaceXs Falcon Heavy rocket. The video also mentions the shuttle persisting through 30 years of missions and continuing to return to its mandate of bringing people into space. In fact, the ISS was not the first space station a shuttle docked with that was Russian-Soviet space station Mir, during the shuttle-Mir program of the 1990s. Other examples of cultural milestones shuttle allowed included the first African-American (Guion Bluford), the first Asian-American (Ellison Onizuka), the first space shuttle commander (Eileen Collins) and numerous international astronauts, the latter arrangement leading to intergovernmental agreements that eventually formed the backbone of the ISS program. ![]()
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