Axiom Mission Opens New Chapter In Commercial Development Of LEO

April 14, 2022
NASA astronauts
The 11-person crew aboard the ISS (clockwise from bottom right): Expedition 67 Commander Tom Marshburn with Flight Engineers Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, Sergey Korsakov, Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, and Matthias Maurer; Ax-1 astronauts (center row from left) Mark Pathy, Eytan Stibbe, Larry Connor and Michael Lopez-Alegria.
Credit: NASA
It was the 2003 Columbia accident and the decision to end the shuttle program that finally set the U.S. on the road to commercial space, prompting NASA to turn to the private sector to open supply lines and operate crew ferry flights to the International Space Station. Before the end of the decade...

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