Posted on 04/17/2022 6:50:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Earlier this month NASA posted a schedule for Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1), the first all-private space flight crew. The four were originally set to spend around 10 days at the ISS, according to that previous release, but yesterday plans changed. NASA said instead the crew will undock from the ISS Tuesday morning and splashdown Wednesday morning off the coast of Florida.
The crew will now be spending closer to 12 days in orbit, but they don’t seem to mind the layover.
It’s nice to daydream, but for now, space remains out of reach for everyone on Earth minus fewer than 1,000 astronauts in all of human history.
(Excerpt) Read more at futurism.com ...
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