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Apr 19, 2022

Private Ax-1 mission’s ISS departure delayed to Tuesday evening

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The four Ax-1 astronauts will get to spend about 12 extra hours on the orbiting lab.


The first-ever fully private crewed mission to the International Space Station will get to spend 12 extra hours aboard the orbiting lab.

The four astronauts of Ax-1, a mission organized by Houston company Axiom Space, had been scheduled to depart the station in their SpaceX Dragon capsule at 10:35 a.m. EDT (1435 GMT) on Tuesday (April 19) and splash down off the coast of Florida early Wednesday morning (April 20).

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