Is anyone aware of a list tracking dock schedule at the ISS?
Quote from: Comga on 05/26/2021 05:27 pmHas Axiom stated the planned mission length for AX-2 and if so, what is it?(Ditto for AX-1)10 days total with 8 days on the ISS.
Has Axiom stated the planned mission length for AX-2 and if so, what is it?(Ditto for AX-1)
https://www.spacex.com/updates/axiom-announcement/index.htmlQuoteSPACEX TO LAUNCH FOUR AXIOM MISSIONS TO ISSDeveloped by SpaceX to support NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, Dragon helped return human spaceflight capabilities in 2020 and has successfully flown three human spaceflight missions to the International Space Station (ISS) to-date. In addition to flying astronauts to space for NASA, Dragon can also carry commercial astronauts to Earth orbit, the ISS or beyond.Today, Axiom Space announced SpaceX will fly three additional private crew missions aboard Dragon to and from the Station through 2023. Axiom previously announced their first mission to the International Space Station flying aboard Dragon, currently targeted to liftoff no earlier than January 2022. In May 2021, Axiom announced that astronaut Peggy Whitson and champion GT racer John Shoffner will serve as commander and pilot on the Ax-2 mission.All four crews will receive combined commercial astronaut training from NASA and SpaceX, with SpaceX providing training on the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft, emergency preparedness training, spacesuit and spacecraft ingress and egress exercises, as well as partial and full simulations.The growing partnership between Axiom and SpaceX will enable more opportunities for more humans in space on the road to making humanity multiplanetary.
SPACEX TO LAUNCH FOUR AXIOM MISSIONS TO ISSDeveloped by SpaceX to support NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, Dragon helped return human spaceflight capabilities in 2020 and has successfully flown three human spaceflight missions to the International Space Station (ISS) to-date. In addition to flying astronauts to space for NASA, Dragon can also carry commercial astronauts to Earth orbit, the ISS or beyond.Today, Axiom Space announced SpaceX will fly three additional private crew missions aboard Dragon to and from the Station through 2023. Axiom previously announced their first mission to the International Space Station flying aboard Dragon, currently targeted to liftoff no earlier than January 2022. In May 2021, Axiom announced that astronaut Peggy Whitson and champion GT racer John Shoffner will serve as commander and pilot on the Ax-2 mission.All four crews will receive combined commercial astronaut training from NASA and SpaceX, with SpaceX providing training on the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft, emergency preparedness training, spacesuit and spacecraft ingress and egress exercises, as well as partial and full simulations.The growing partnership between Axiom and SpaceX will enable more opportunities for more humans in space on the road to making humanity multiplanetary.
In one year SpaceX has managed to do three flights with two vehicles. What would prevent Starliner to do the same ?An this is with the generous assumption that crew commercial needs two Starliner flights a year.
The important item here is that with Axiom doing 2 flights a year. NASA doing 1 Dragon flight a year. The other being a Starliner. And a probable additional occasional free flyer Dragon flight. The number of crewed Dragon flights per year will be 3 to 4 each year. It is hard to think that this would stop after 2023. So the pattern would likely continue if not actually increase in the non-ISS crewed flights numbers per year. It is a possibility that in 2023 SpaceX could send a D2 to the LSS prior to its one way trip to the Moon to do an couple of day evaluation of the habitat space while on orbit in LEO. Problems found could then be fixed before the next one which would be used to land humans onto the Lunar surface.So what I see in the next few years is this 3 to 4 crewed flights per year increasing. 4 to 5, 5 to 6...
The winner of Discovery’s nominally named, “Who Wants to be an Astronaut” will also be flying on AX-2.Which, on a personal note, is cool because Discovery called me yesterday and I have a Zoom interview with the show’s producers on Monday…
Is the black helmet a special one for training ?
