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Axiom Space Mission 3

Falcon 9 Block 5

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Crew

Michael López-Alegría

Michael López-Alegría

Status: Active
5/30/1958 -
Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 10/20/1995
Last Flight: 4/8/2022

Michael López-Alegría is a Spanish-American astronaut; a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission. He is known for having performed ten spacewalks so far in his career, presently holding the second longest all-time EVA duration record and having the third longest spaceflight of any American at the length of 215 days; this time was spent on board the ISS from September 18, 2006 to April 21, 2007.

Walter Villadei

Walter Villadei

Status: Active
4/29/1974 -
Nationality: Italian
Type: Government
First Flight: 6/29/2023
Last Flight: 6/29/2023

Italian Air Force mission commander on the Virgin Galactic 01 flight. Backup pilot for the Axiom Space Mission 2, qualified on Soyuz, ISS systems, and Orlan for EVA activities.

Alper Gezeravci

Status: In-Training
12/2/1979 -
Nationality: Turkish
Type: Government

Fighter pilot trained on F16, first Turkish astronaut.

Marcus Wandt

Marcus Wandt

Status: In-Training
9/22/1980 -
Nationality: Swedish
Type: Government

Marcus Wandt is a Swedish test pilot and member of the European Space Agency's 2022 astronaut class reserve.

Mission

Axiom Space Mission 3

Type: Tourism
Launch Cost: $52,000,000

This is a Crew Dragon flight for a private company Axiom Space. The mission will carry a professionally trained commander alongside three private astronauts to and from the International Space Station. This crew will stay aboard space station for at least eight days.

Trajectory

The trajectory is unavailable. Check back for updates.

Mission patch for Axiom Space Mission 3

Location

Space Launch Complex 40

Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

922 rockets have launched from Cape Canaveral, FL, USA.

Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

Core Landing

The Falcon 9 first stage will attempt to land back at the launch site after this flight.

Landing Zone 1 – LZ-1

LZ-1 Pad located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at the previous LC-13

Return to Launch Site – RTLS

A return to launch site usually means that after stage separation the booster flips and does a burn back towards the launch site, landing near where it initially launched from.

Agency

SpaceX – SpX

  • Type: Commercial
  • Abbreviation: SpX
  • Administration: CEO: Elon Musk
  • Founded: 2002
  • Launchers: Falcon | Starship
  • Spacecraft: Dragon
  • Country: USA

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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Ken & Judy O
Ken & Judy O' Neill
18 days ago

Enjoy the ride you lucky folks.