ORLANDO, Fla. — Axiom Space made history in 2022 with the first all-private mission to the International Space Station. The company is ready to do it again, but with more focus on its endgame: having its own commercial space station in what could potentially be a crowded playing field in low-Earth orbit.
“The goals of these missions, which we sometimes call precursor missions, are to build up first the Axiom internal operations capability — the tools, the processes — to train flight controllers that are going to be required down the line to operate our Axiom Station in the future,” said Axiom Space’s Derek Hassmann, chief of mission integration and operations.
The Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2) flight is slated to send a crew of four to the International Space Station inside SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Freedom atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A.
