U.S. Company Puts Saudi Human Space Program In Business

Irene Klotz June 01, 2023
crew aboard the International Space Station

The combined Axiom Mission-2 and Expedition 69 crews aboard the International Space Station (clockwise from left): Peggy Whitson, Ali AlQarni, Dmitry Petelin, Stephen Bowen, Andrey Fedyaev, Sergey Prokopyev, Warren “Woody” Hoburg, Rayyanah Barnawi, John Shoffner and Sultan AlNeyadi. Not pictured is Frank Rubio.

Credit: NASA
On its second charter to the International Space Station, Houston-based Axiom Space broke into a new market for the commercial spaceflight industry: minting astronauts from countries seeking to establish human space programs. “This is only the beginning for our country and our region,” Rayyanah...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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