6/19/2023 0 Comments Youtube nasa space shuttle launch![]() Just like during the dry dress rehearsal, the crew suited up and drove to the pad hours before liftoff. STATIC FIRE! SpaceX Falcon 9 B1080 fires up its nine Merlin 1D engines ahead of the crewed Axiom-2 (Ax-2) mission from KSC 39A. This allows the astronauts, ground crew, and controllers to run through what will happen on launch day.Ī static fire of B1080 was completed at 9:37 PM EDT the same day (02:37 UTC May 20), where the rocket is fueled and all nine Merlin 1-D engines ignite for a few seconds while the rocket remains secured to the pad. The crew suit up, take their special Teslas to the base of LC-39A, ride the elevator up, and get set in their seats with the hatch closed. The crew of four performed a dry dress rehearsal on May 19, where they ran through all procedures that will happen on launch day up until fuel loading. After graduating with a Bachelor’s in biomedical engineering from Otago University in New Zealand and a Master’s in biomedical sciences from Alfaisal University in Saudi Arabia, Barnawi has now spent more than nine years as a research lab technician at King Faisal Specialist Hospital working on stem cell and tissue re-engineering programs.Īxiom-2 mission specialist Ali Alqarni. Mission Specialist Rayyanah Barnawi, 33, will be the first Saudi female astronaut. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is sponsoring two crewmembers on Ax-2. Shoffner is also the only person on this mission to pay for his seat. Shoffner is also a well-established pilot with more than 8,500 flight hours to his name, including flying in air shows for more than 25 years with multiple aircraft-type ratings from single engine to commercial ratings. Together they had many class wins and podium finishes driving the Mercedes AMG GT3 in the Nürburgring VLN Endurance Series, the ADAC Nürburgring 24-hour, and the GT Open International Series. The husband-and-wife duo went on to create a European-based endurance motorsports racing team. He has completed more than 3,000 skydives and base jumps, even meeting his wife during a skydive in 1999.Īxiom-2 pilot John Shoffner. He served as the CEO of Dura-Line until he departed in 1997 to pursue his passions. ![]() Shoffner originally worked on materials and methods for up-and-coming fiber optic cables in the 1980s. Shoffner is hoping to use this mission as a chance to share his love for science, technology, engineering, and math with kids on the ground. Early in his life, he knew he wanted to go to space, forming a young astronauts club as a child in Kentucky. The pilot for this mission is John Shoffner. She has been in the space industry, including time at NASA and private companies like Axiom, for more than 37 years. During that time she conducted more than 60 hours of spacewalks while also becoming the first female commander of the ISS, the only woman to command the station twice, and the first woman, nonmilitary chief of NASA’s Astronaut Office. Whitson flew on Expeditions 5, 16, and 50/51/52. That mission launched in April 2022 and returned to Earth in October off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida.Īxiom-2 commander Peggy Whitson. This is the second flight for this capsule, having previously flown the Crew-4 mission to and from the ISS. The Crew Dragon capsule carrying the Ax-2 crew to and from the ISS is C212, better known as Freedom. It was also noted that this removes a weather criterion for the launch as land landings remove the need for booster recovery weather to be green. “The number of Falcon flights we’ve flown have allowed us to say that performance is available and can be used where it’s needed to be used going forward.” “We’ve always had this kind of capability before, we just weren’t sure we’d always get the performance,” Gerstenmaier said. During a media teleconference, Gerstenmaier said the decision was made as a result of the performance seen on Starlink launches. All previous crewed missions landed on drone ships located in the Atlantic Ocean.Īccording to William Gerstenmaier, the vice president of build and flight reliability at SpaceX, this will be standard practice for crew missions for the foreseeable future. Marking the first time SpaceX is returning a booster to a landing zone on a crew mission, B1080 conducted a return to launch site landing, landing at Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1), located on the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The booster that launched this crew was B1080 on its first flight. This mission makes history with its crew and the rocket launching them toward the ISS. Liftoff was on May 21 at 5:37 PM EDT (21:37 UTC) from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at the Kennedy Space Center, before docking with the ISS on Monday. The international crew of Axiom-2 (Ax-2) flew onboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket. Axiom Space launched the second-ever all-private crew to the International Space Station (ISS).
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