The second private astronaut mission, Axiom Mission-2 (Ax-2), has been cleared for launch to the International Space Station, led by veteran astronaut Peggy Whitson. The Ax-2 crew will engage in research and commercial activities while the current ISS crew continues microgravity science experiments
Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin work outside the International Space Station to deploy and activate a radiator on the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module during a five-hour and 14-minute spacewalk. From top to bottom, the main station elements are Nauka, with the European robotic arm and an experiment airlock attached, the Prichal docking module, and the Soyuz MS-23 crew ship.
Mission managers have given the go for the launch of the second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station on Sunday. The Expedition 69 crew is preparing to meet the new astronauts while also keeping up its human research, maintaining orbital lab systems, and stowing spacewalk tools.managers met on Monday and agreed to launch four Axiom Mission-2 crew members to the space station at 5:37 p.m.on Sunday.
Four station flight engineers joined each other on Tuesday afternoon and reviewed the Ax -2 mission schedule. NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen, Frank Rubio, and Woody Hoburg, along with UAE astronaut Sultan Alneyadi familiarized themselves with the upcoming mission activities and reviewed how the crews will coordinate during docked operations.
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