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Ax-1, First Private Crewed Space Station Mission, Launches Successfully

 Ax-1, First Private Commercial Crew Mission

Ax-1, First Private Crewed Space Station Mission, Launches Successfully
    credits - nasa/Joel kowsky

● The first commercial manned space flight was successfully launched from Kazakhstan at 7:28 pm local time (15:28 UTC) today. This private mission is being conducted by the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket along with its Dragon cargo capsule. The launch has been delayed multiple times due to technical issues, however the weather conditions have cleared up enough that the launch can proceed. The crew capsule is currently orbiting Earth at approximately 400km above the surface.

 Ax-1, Launch Video

 The video below shows you some footage of the launch event. You can watch the entire 4 minute launch video here.


video credits  - spacex 


●Ax-1 is an Incredible space cosmos mission to the International Space Station (ISS)

●Ax-1 is commanded by Ex-NASA Astronaut Michael Lopez -Alegria ,who is now vice president of Business development in Axion. He along with pilot Larry Connor {real estate enterpreneur & pilot familiar with 16 diff. aircraft} & mission specialist  Eytan Sribbe { fighter pilot of Israel Air force (ISS) & and  2nd israili person to space} and Mark Pathy (CEO and chairperson of Canadian sustainable investment company and Marvik Stibbe ( founding partner of vital capital impact investment fund ).


●Commander did not pay for his place aboard the mission and will guide the other crew member through the entire journey and the other 3 crew members roughly spent $55 million on their seats .


●Ax-1 simply is space tourism . Lopez alegria told space.com in an conversation "I would say it is not tourism at all this mission is wholly private crewed mission to launch to the orbiting lab.

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