SpaceX AX-2 Crew Dragon Splashdown
Gulf of Mexico, southwest of Pensacola, FL, USA
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 · 03:09 UTC
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/01The AX-2 Crew Dragon will splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico, bringing Axiom Space Mission 2 commander Peggy Whitson and three passengers back to Earth after spending a few days on the International Space Station.
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/03Axiom Space
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/04International Space Station
The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the sixteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilization, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station. It was conceived in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, during the Space Station Freedom project as it was originally called.
Axiom Private Spaceflight
Axiom Space provides human spaceflight missions to the International Space Station. The company sent its first commercial astronauts into orbit in 2022. It also plans human spaceflight for government-funded and commercial astronauts engaging in in-space research, in-space manufacturing, and space exploration.