{"id":1422441,"date":"2022-04-06T17:59:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T21:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1422441"},"modified":"2022-04-06T17:59:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T21:59:39","slug":"first-all-private-space-crew-set-for-launch-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-all-private-space-crew-set-for-launch-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"First All-Private Space Crew Set For Launch This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffirst-all-private-space-crew-set-for-launch-this-week%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1422441&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/7DF0C462-5A63-44A9-8E7A-75E586AD7A90_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p2\">This week, the first entirely private astronaut team is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksl.com\/article\/50381365\/1st-private-astronaut-mission-to-space-station-readies-for-launch\"><span class=\"s1\">set<\/span><\/a> for launch to head to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/lifestyle\/science\/first-private-astronaut-mission-space-station-readies-launch-2022-04-04\/\"><span class=\"s1\">Reuters<\/span><\/a>, the group is scheduled to blast off from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, \u201criding atop a Falcon 9 rocket furnished and flown by Elon Musk\u2019s commercial space launch venture SpaceX.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The launch was originally set for Wednesday, but an Axiom spokesperson announced Monday that the pushback would give SpaceX more time to finish pre-launch processing tasks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cIf all goes smoothly, the quartet led by retired NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria would arrive at the space station about 28 hours later as their SpaceX-supplied Crew Dragon capsule docks at ISS some 250 miles (400 km) above Earth,\u201d Reuters added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The crew of four men include Lopez-Alegria, the mission commander and vice president of business development at Axiom. Joining him will be Larry Connor, a tech and real estate businessman. \u201cRounding out the Ax-1 team are investor-philanthropist and former Israeli fighter pilot Eytan Stibbe, 64, and Canadian businessman and philanthropist Mark Pathy, 52, both serving as mission specialists,\u201d the outlet added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Stibbe will be the second Israeli in space, following Ilan Ramon, who died with six NASA crew members in the 2003 Columbia shuttle tragedy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Lopez-Alegria pointed out that the crew \u201c<span class=\"s2\">are not space tourists\u201d at a news briefing, per Reuters. Lopez-Alegria explained that the crew has gone through intense astronaut training with SpaceX and NASA. They will also be conducting biomedical research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">The outlet explained:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p4\"><i>The so-called Ax-1 team will be carrying equipment and supplies for 26 science and technology experiments to be conducted before they are slated to leave orbit and return to Earth 10 days after launch. These include research on brain health, cardiac stem cells, cancer and aging as well as a technology demonstration to produce optics using the surface tension of fluids in microgravity, company executives said.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cIt is the beginning of many beginnings for commercializing low-Earth orbit,\u201d Axiom\u2019s co-founder and executive chairman, Kam Ghaffarian, told Reuters in an interview. \u201cWe\u2019re like in the early days of the internet, and we haven\u2019t even imagined all the possibilities, all the capabilities, that we\u2019re going to be providing in space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Space.com <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-rolls-out-falcon-9-dragon-ax-1-launch\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a> that \u201cSpaceX rolled the\u00a0<span class=\"s3\">Falcon 9<\/span>\u00a0rocket and Dragon capsule that will fly the\u00a0<span class=\"s3\">Ax-1 mission<\/span>\u00a0out to Launch Pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida\u201d on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">SpaceX <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX\/status\/1511436369796599808\"><span class=\"s1\">shared<\/span><\/a> photos of the movement on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Falcon 9 and Dragon roll out to the launch pad at 39A for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Axiom_Space?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Axiom_Space<\/a>\u2019s Ax-1 mission <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7LWHH4bWLn\">pic.twitter.com\/7LWHH4bWLn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SpaceX (@SpaceX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX\/status\/1511436369796599808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">Last month, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-putin-spacex-kazakhstan-space-exploration-24f16612583a55d4e504d6c6909090d3\"><span class=\"s1\">returned<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to Earth after spending 355 days at the International Space Station in a new United States record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nasa-astronaut-returns-to-earth-in-russian-spacecraft\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a>, Vande Hei\u00a0came back in a Russian capsule, landing in Kazakhstan, after his journey. He returned with Russian Space Agency\u2019s Pyotr Dubrov, who spent the past year in space as well, and Anton Shkaplerov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Russia and the United States work together in space and \u201cNASA has said it cannot operate the station without the Russians, which provide the propulsion that allows the ISS to keep its orbit and maneuver when needed. Russia needs NASA, as well, as the space agency provides power to the Russian segment of the station,\u201d per The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Before leaving the space station, Shkaplerov called his fellow astronauts \u201cmy space brothers and space sister.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cPeople have problem on Earth. On orbit \u2026 we are one crew,\u201d Shkaplerov reportedly said in a live NASA TV broadcast. The space station is a symbol of \u201cfriendship and cooperation and \u2026 future of exploration of space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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