The crew of fare-paying passengers, including Canadians, arrive at the International Space Station
Axiom Mission 1’s four-member crew, including Montreal entrepreneur Mark Pathy, arrived near the International Space Station on Saturday aboard a earliest all-private charter flight to a ISS.
SpaceX launched its own Crew Dragon spacecraft via NASA’s Kennedy Space Center within Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Friday for a 10-day mission, with passengers expected in order to spend eight days on certain space station.
Pathy financier also philanthropist, Ohio actual estate also tech entrepreneur Larry Connor, along with Israeli businessman Eytan Stibbe every paid Ourselves$55 million for any rocket flight plus stay on the ISS. Joining them is retired NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, whom works for Houston-based startup Axiom Space Inc.
A mission includes per series of scientific experiments. Pathy stated man might support test something called holoportation, one fresh technology whatever uses virtual reality for communication.
He along with a colleague out of field mission control testament employ VR headsets toward share of them experiences. Pathy will as well participate within surveys made from any Soil from space.
Certain spacecraft was scheduled up to dock at each space-facing port of the Harmony module around 7:45 single.m. ET. However, a approach as well as “soft capture†up to any docking port was delayed approximately 45 minutes meanwhile NASA resolved one issue with obtaining single video feed via Dragon.
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