The four-person Ax-2 mission will lift off at 10:43 p.m. ET on May 8, if all goes according to plan.
. Barnawi will become the first Saudi woman ever to reach space, and she and AlQarni will be the first people from the kingdom to travel to the ISS.
The fourth Ax-2 crewmember is investor John Shoffner, a paying customer who will serve as Ax-2's pilot. "I actually feel very blessed that I have such an extremely talented crew that has not only met but surpassed the training requirements for this mission," Whitson said during today's press conference.
"We've trained at NASA [and] SpaceX; we've also trained at the European Space Agency and the Japanese space agency," Whitson said. The team has done centrifuge training, she added,"zero G flights, outdoor and confined-environment training for team building," she added."So I really feel that that has prepared us very well."
Axiom Space's long-term vision encompasses more than flying private astronaut missions to and from the ISS. The company plans to start launching modules to the ISS in 2025, building up a private outpost that will detach and fly freely by the end of this decade.
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