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#20
by
AnalogMan
on 28 May, 2021 16:29
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#21
by
NX-0
on 28 May, 2021 17:06
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Has 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.
10 moves Whitson up a notch on teh aall-time list - 13 would move her up 2 notches
Rank Person Days Flights Status Nationality
1 Gennady Padalka 878.480 5 Retired Russia
7 Valeri Polyakov 678.690 2 Retired Soviet Union / Russia
8 Fyodor Yurchikhin 672.860 5 Retired Russia
9 Peggy Whitson 665.932 3 Retired United States
10 Anatoly Solovyev 651.117 5 Retired Soviet Union / Russia
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#22
by
FutureSpaceTourist
on 02 Jun, 2021 15:35
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Dragon confirmation:
https://www.spacex.com/updates/axiom-announcement/index.html
SPACEX TO LAUNCH FOUR AXIOM MISSIONS TO ISS
Developed 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.
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#23
by
Jansen
on 02 Jun, 2021 16:59
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#24
by
ncb1397
on 02 Jun, 2021 17:30
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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.
Nominally, the turn around time on Starliner is supposed to be 6 months. Thus, Calypso and the other capsule would theoretically be able to support 4 flights per year. 2 flights are scheduled in 2nd Half 2021 taking up the capacity for this year, but next year probably has potential openings in the schedule.
And yes, I see the tweet above showing Crew Dragon, just want to clear up any mis-perceptions that Starliner is completely maxed out from NASA flights alone (due to the number of capsules).
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#25
by
oldAtlas_Eguy
on 03 Jun, 2021 21:16
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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...
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#26
by
wannamoonbase
on 03 Jun, 2021 21:34
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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...
I agree that we can see Dragon crewed flights having a consistent use for years to come. I could see for at least 5 years, especially for ISS. And once the vehicles are designed, built, certified, the cost of each incremental flight should cost less.
Falcon 9 and Crewed Dragon flights could be a cash cow for SpaceX for years to come.
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#27
by
TrevorMonty
on 04 Jun, 2021 00:09
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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...
Limiting factor is access to spacestation. Axiom ISS habitat should help here plus reduce mission as they won't be by as many services from NASA.
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#28
by
Johnnyhinbos
on 04 Jun, 2021 07:45
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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…
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#29
by
ZachS09
on 04 Jun, 2021 12:49
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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…
Awesome sauce! Good luck with the interview!
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#30
by
ddspaceman
on 30 Jun, 2021 03:09
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#31
by
StraumliBlight
on 19 Jul, 2021 11:18
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#32
by
hektor
on 21 Sep, 2021 09:47
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Is the plan to have a reality TV show to fill at least one of the remaining seats still ongoing ?
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#33
by
ddspaceman
on 14 Dec, 2021 21:01
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#34
by
hektor
on 15 Dec, 2021 19:58
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Is the black helmet a special one for training ?
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#35
by
baldusi
on 16 Dec, 2021 13:29
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Is the black helmet a special one for training ?
I think each helmet is custom 3D printed. Probably still needed to be finished and painted.
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#36
by
scr00chy
on 16 Dec, 2021 14:08
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I think it might some kind of temporary/placeholder helmet that astronauts use during training until their custom-fitted one is made. We've seen these black helmets multiple times in the past in training photos.
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#37
by
hektor
on 16 Dec, 2021 19:34
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#38
by
ddspaceman
on 18 Dec, 2021 02:08
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#39
by
ddspaceman
on 12 Mar, 2022 22:45
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