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\nWelcome home, Ax-2 crew: Axiom Space concludes second private mission to ISS<\/br>
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Axiom Space<\/a>\u2018s second private mission to the International Space Station (ISS) concluded late Tuesday, with a four-person crew splashing down off the west coast of Florida around 11 PM EST.<\/p>\n

The splashdown marks another win for Axiom, the private company that operated the mission, and SpaceX, which launched and returned the crew inside a Dragon crew capsule. This was Axiom\u2019s second private human spaceflight mission to the ISS and SpaceX\u2019s tenth time launching humans to the orbital lab and back.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpaceX, we would like to tell you, that was a phenomenal ride,\u201d mission commander Peggy Whitson said shortly after splashdown. \u201cWe really enjoyed all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"SpaceX<\/p>\n

Image credit: SpaceX<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Ax-2 crew includes Whitson, former NASA astronaut and Axiom\u2019s director of human spaceflight; pilot John Shoffner; and Ali Alqarni and Rayyanah Barnawi, both astronauts from Saudi Arabia. Alqarni and Barnawi are the first Saudi astronauts to visit the ISS. Whitson has now spent a total of 674 days in space \u2013 a record for any other American or woman.<\/p>\n

While aboard the ISS, the Ax-2 crew conducted over twenty experiments and brought back more than 300 pounds of return material and data.<\/p>\n

Axiom Space\u2019s first mission, Ax-1, took place in April 2022<\/a> and lasted for a total of 17 days. The company wants to be the go-to mission provider for governments, private enterprises, and even individuals looking to spend time on the orbital lab. This most recent crew reflects Axiom\u2019s business plan perfectly: an ultra-experienced former NASA astronaut at the helm, along with a private wealthy individual who paid for his ticket and two government customers.<\/p>\n

Axiom doesn\u2019t plan on just providing mission support: the company\u2019s longer-term goal is to operate its own commercial space station. Axiom\u2019s plan is to launch two pressurize modules<\/a> and attach them to the ISS sometime around 2025; those modules would eventually detach and become a free-floating Axiom Station once the ISS is decommissioned in 2030.<\/p>\n

Rewatch the splashdown in the video below.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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