{"id":21988,"date":"2021-12-14T16:20:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T10:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=21988"},"modified":"2021-12-14T16:20:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T10:35:09","slug":"nasa-selects-second-private-astronaut-mission-to-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/nasa-selects-second-private-astronaut-mission-to-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Selects Second Private Astronaut Mission to Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/second-space-mission-675x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21989\" width=\"838\" height=\"559\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/second-space-mission-675x450.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/second-space-mission-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/second-space-mission-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/second-space-mission-174x116.jpg 174w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/second-space-mission.jpg 985w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA has selected Axiom Space for the second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. NASA will negotiate with Axiom on a mission order agreement for the Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2) targeted to launch between fall 2022 and late spring 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ax-2 will launch from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a mission of no more than 14 days docked to the space station. NASA and Axiom will negotiate in-orbit activities for the private astronauts to conduct in coordination with space station crew members and flight controllers on the ground. The Ax-2 mission concept includes scientific research and outreach activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA and its international partners will review private astronauts selections proposed by Axiom for the Ax-2 mission, as is standard for any space station crew. The proposed crew members would undergo NASA medical qualification testing to be approved for flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA evaluated the mission proposal based on Axiom\u2019s ability to execute it successfully, NASA\u2019s ability to support it, and its contribution to the agency\u2019s mission and goal of low-Earth orbit commercialization. This mission is subject to NASA\u2019s updated&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/leo-economy\/updates-private-astronaut-mission-pricing-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pricing policy<\/a>&nbsp;for private astronaut missions, which reflects the full value of costs to the agency that are above space station baseline capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Progress continues toward NASA and Axiom\u2019s first private astronaut mission to the space station,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-axiom-agree-to-first-private-astronaut-mission-on-space-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Axiom Mission 1<\/a>&nbsp;(Ax-1), which is scheduled to launch no earlier than Feb. 21, 2022. Axiom\u2019s proposed crew members still are completing final evaluations by NASA and its international partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agency did not make a selection for a third private astronaut mission from its June 2021&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/leo-economy\/NASA-seeks-proposals-next2-private-astronaut-missions-ISS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">research announcement<\/a>. NASA will gather lessons learned from the first private astronaut flight as well as other applicable station activities and announce a new flight opportunity in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has selected Axiom Space for the second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/second-space-mission.jpg",985,657,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/second-space-mission-200x200.jpg",200,200,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/second-space-mission-600x400.jpg",600,400,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/second-space-mission-768x512.jpg",750,500,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/second-space-mission-675x450.jpg",675,450,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/second-space-mission.jpg",985,657,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/second-space-mission.jpg",985,657,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/second-space-mission.jpg",985,657,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/second-space-mission.jpg",855,570,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/second-space-mission.jpg",600,400,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/second-space-mission.jpg",600,400,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/second-space-mission-760x490.jpg",760,490,true],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/second-space-mission-550x360.jpg",550,360,true],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/second-space-mission-95x65.jpg",95,65,true],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/second-space-mission.jpg",640,427,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/second-space-mission.jpg",96,64,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/second-space-mission.jpg",150,100,false]},"author_info":{"info":["RevoScience"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/news\/space-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Space\/ AstroPhysics<\/a>","tag_info":"Space\/ AstroPhysics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}