Axiom Space Private Astronauts Depart Space Station

Mark Carreau May 30, 2023

Peggy Whitson (foreground) and John Shoffner inside the SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft.

Credit: NASA TV
Axiom Space’s second four-person private astronaut mission (AX-2) to the International Space Station (ISS) departed the orbital laboratory as planned on May 30 to set up a parachute-assisted splashdown in the waters off the Florida peninsula. Peggy Whitson, the mission’s commander and Axiom’s...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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