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Elizabeth Howell

Meet the 4 astronauts of SpaceX's Ax-2 mission for Axiom Space

four headshots side by side of ax-2 crew members

Axiom Space, a commercial space company based in Houston, Texas, is sending four more people to the International Space Station, including a retired NASA astronaut.

Axiom Space's second crewed mission to space, called Ax-2, will launch from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, where SpaceX launches its astronaut missions for NASA. The four crew members will ascend to the International Space Station (ISS) in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft atop one of the company's Falcon 9 rockets. Launch is currently scheduled for Sunday (May 21) at 5:37 p.m. EDT (2137 GMT) and you can watch live here at Space.com, via NASA and SpaceX.

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