After seventeen days in Space the first all private crew to the ISS is heading home. Splashdown to occur this afternoon around 1:06 pm E.T.
Axiom-1
April 8, 2022. The first all private crew to launch to the International Space Station took flight today from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for the Axiom-1 mission.
Meet the crew of Axiom-1, the first all private crew to fly to the International Space Station. Using a SpaceX Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon capsule the four will spend ten days in orbit while performing experiments and research during their stay at the space station.
Even if it is April Fools, there’s no joke here. SpaceX found a way to miss the sever storms in the area to launch the Transporter-4 mission today, sending forty more rideshare satellites into space.