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The Ax-1 astronauts"faced challenges experiencing space for the first time, and faced a complicated suite of experiments," continued the Crew-3 crew, during the press conference."We enjoyed getting to know them, they were gracious and kind, we were happy to have their experimental results completed.
"What exceeded them was the joy of living and working with the crew, it is really cool to wake up and know you're going to spend the next 24 hours with these people," remarked the crew."It's going to take some adjustment to get back" to a normal Earth work schedule. But before the end of the mission, and months before the Axiom-1 private astronauts arrived, geopolitics paid the space station a visit when
in low-Earth orbit, sending tens of thousands of bits of space debris careening around the Earth at deadly speeds that could slice through the ISS.spacecraft, and although it"wasn't a good thing to happen," the emergency turned out to be"a really good crew training exercise," said the astronauts."We all got to see how the culture and the flow was — and actually check out using the Dragon as a safe haven.
"It was actually a privilege to actuate all the hatches, we got to know our space station much better as a result of" Russia's ASAT test. This isn't to say that astronauts take a major geopolitical event lightly — the ISS is a very important asset for most of the space-faring powers of the world.
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