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SpaceX Axiom Launches Second Private Astronaut Mission · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Hi everybody and welcome back to the Elon Musk podcast.
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  And in today's episode, we are going to embark on a journey to
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  explore the groundbreaking Axiom space ex2 mission.
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  Will they set the stories of the diverse Crew?
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  The crucial science will conduct aboard, the International Space
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  Station, and how last-minute hurdles reshape this mission on
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  May 21st. History was yet, made again as
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  XE was space. The pioneering private
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  spaceflight company launched its second private astronaut.
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  Mission the crew Dragon spacecraft Christian Freedom
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  took off from Kennedy Space. Center's launch complex 39, a
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  born skywards. By a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and
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  aboard the spacecraft. We're the foreperson aux two.
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  Astronauts ready to experience space freedoms departure marks.
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  A new era in space travel and exploration is the second
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  private. Astronaut Mission executed by X.
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  IMA space the event illustrates the escalating Trend towards
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  commercial Flight democratizing access to the Stars.
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  It lifted off at 5:37 p.m. eastern time at the spacecraft
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  and its trailblazing crew separated from the Rockets Upper
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  stage and about 12 minutes after liftoff.
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  The SpaceX engineer. Dragon spacecraft is set to dock
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  with the International Space Station on May 22nd around. 9:30
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  a.m. eastern time signifying. The beginning of the ax to
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  cruise extraordinary Journey, the And its crew will inhabit
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  the space station for an eight-day Mission.
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  Engaging in a host of scientific commercial and exploratory
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  activities leading. The ax 2 team is Peggy Whitson.
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  The former NASA astronaut who holds the distinguish u.s.
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  record for longest cumulative, time and space totaling six
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  hundred and sixty five days with stain is currently leveraging.
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  Her considerable expertise as director of human space flight
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  at Axiom. Steering the company's foray
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  into the Frontier. Now joining with Senators, John
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  shaffner a private astronaut who served as a backup for axioms.
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  Inaugural ax1 mission in 2022. Schaffner now takes the helm is
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  pilot for a X2, contributing his wealth of experience and skill
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  to the mission. The team is routed out by
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  Mission specialist Alia, Carney and Rihanna or will now we 270
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  astronauts selected by the Saudi space Commission in February as
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  part of the partnership agreed signed.
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  With Axiom space in September of 2022.
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  Now, those two are now just astronauts there.
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  Also, representatives of their Nation, becoming the second and
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  third Saudi citizens to venture into space.
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  They follow in the celestial, footsteps of Sultan bin Salman
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  outside, who blazed the trail is a payload specialist on a space
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  shuttle, mission in 1985 more significantly, or now he holds
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  the prestigious title of the first female, Saudi astronauts
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  marking a Mark moment for the nation space efforts.
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  Now while originally planned for a 10-day stint at the ISS, the a
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  x2's mission duration was clipped 28 days due to a delayed
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  Falcon heavy launch. And as the launch schedule
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  tightened, Axiom space, and NASA made the mutual decision, to
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  adjust the missions length fitting it into the bustling
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  manifest of missions targeting the station.
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  And despite the short timeline, Axiom space, maintains high,
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  expectations for the mission. Hesseman chief of mission
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  integration and operations at exim, space assured in a May 15
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  briefing. That the company prioritize
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  planned research activities, while cutting some low priority,
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  Outreach activities, Saudi astronauts.
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  Nevertheless, are expected to conduct a whole series of media
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  events during the your ISS tenure including engaging, with
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  students in interactive sessions.
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  Now, before the emission reduction, the crew already
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  faced an extensive schedule. The team is prepared to October
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  20 experiments spanning various fields from Life Sciences to in
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  space manufacturing. An axiom in its pursuit to
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  develop commercial modules for the ISS, as a precursor for a
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  standalone. Space station will also execute
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  its own technology demonstration.
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  Now, describing the mission Lucille.
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  Oh Chief scientist had Axiom emphasized its intensity during
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  an April briefing. We have an absolutely jam-packed
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  Mission see said, outlining the white Array of experiments
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  provided by the Saudi space commission and other partners.
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  And Axiom, she explained has been a laboriously working to
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  accommodate these projects into the available crew time and ISS
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  resources. In her words, the process was
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  like playing a massive game of very complicated,
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  four-dimensional Django. Now, Axiom has not let past
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  experiences. Go on learned lessons from ex1
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  where the four-person crew were swamped with tasks have been For
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  mental that preparing for ax to the crew, adapted, the mission
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  training, intensifying focus in some areas.
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  While tapering it others, and taking a leaf from past
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  practices with stdin a day, May 16th briefing.
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  Highlighted the necessity to return to a short duration
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  training style, similar to space flight training for the space
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  shuttle said, focusing on the areas where we need the most
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  experience with she said with sins own schedule is much less
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  constrained than that of her. Assessor?
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  Who commanded a X1 last year, she assured, I'll be available
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  to help the crew members a lot more as they need assistance,
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  which will primarily just be the first day or two and it's
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  notable that ax to marks the tenth crewed flight by SpaceX in
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  less than three years. This journey began with a demo
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  to commercial crew, test flight for NASA and may have 20/20.
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  And since then SpaceX has launched six crew rotation
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  missions to the ISS including a X1 and the trailblazing
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  Inspiration for a private astronaut mission in 2021, the
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  spent three days in space without docking with the
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  International Space Station. And as Axiom space steps forward
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  into this new frontier of commercial space flight each
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  Mission marks, it incremental shift in the world of space
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  exploration. When they grows increasingly
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  commercial inclusive, and also exciting.
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  And these missions aren't just about reaching for the stars,
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  are about making them more accessible.
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  To everybody. And in this sense, Axiom space
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  isn't just launching Rockets with SpaceX.
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  They're launching dreams for and New Frontier in the red biting
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  us all to look up and see where the future is headed and exim.
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  Space isn't even getting started the leadership at Axiom.
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  Envisions, the private spaceflight will continue much
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  later than when the space station is retired, which Anessa
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  anticipates will happen around 2030, and Axiom is one of
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  several. Us companies that are going to
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  be building a new privately owned space station.
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  It's an effort supported by NASA, but the private sector is
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  picking up the tab on this one. The ax to crew will work closely
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  with the professional astronauts that are already on the space
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  station and those astronauts will show the new ax to Mission
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  astronauts the ropes on board of the station, such as the
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  kitchen, the bathroom, where to sleep, how to sleep and certain
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  areas will remain off limits for just the International Space
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  Station. Professional astronauts.
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  That's been a great update about Axiom space.
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  I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you enjoy space flight because
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  it's really cool. It's really interesting.
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