{"id":113211,"date":"2020-09-20T15:02:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T22:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/former-nasa-astronaut-will-be-commander-of-axioms-civilian-flight-aboard-spacexs-crew-dragon"},"modified":"2020-09-20T15:02:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T22:02:38","slug":"former-nasa-astronaut-will-be-commander-of-axioms-civilian-flight-aboard-spacexs-crew-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/former-nasa-astronaut-will-be-commander-of-axioms-civilian-flight-aboard-spacexs-crew-dragon","title":{"rendered":"Former NASA Astronaut will be Commander of Axiom\u2019s civilian flight aboard SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/former-nasa-astronaut-will-be-commander-of-axioms-civilian-flight-aboard-spacexs-crew-dragon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Featured image source: NASA \/ spacex<\/p>\n<p>Axiom Space Inc. is a Houston, Texas start-up, founded by Michael Suffredini who served as NASA\u2019s International Space Station (ISS) Program Manager from 2005 to 2015. He was responsible for overseeing ISS transition from assembly to the initiation of commercial operations. Axiom is mostly staffed by NASA ex-employees, including former NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. \u2013 \u201cThe leadership team also includes world-class, specialized expertise in commercial utilization of microgravity, on-orbit operations, astronaut training, space financing, engineering, space system architecture\/design\/development, space medicine, marketing, and law,\u201d the company states. Together, they are all working towards the commercialization of space.<\/p>\n<p>Axiom aims to build a space station in low Earth orbit to continue operations once NASA retires the ISS program and moves beyond the orbiting laboratory to focus operations on the lunar surface. The company also offers spaceflights for regular civilians to experience microgravity and amazing views of Earth from ISS. \u201cWhile making access to Low Earth Orbit global during the remainder of ISS\u2019 lifetime, Axiom is constructing the future platform that will serve as humanity\u2019s permanently growing home, scientific and industrial complex in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) \u2013 the cornerstone of human activity in space,\u201d company states on its website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured image source: NASA \/ spacex Axiom Space Inc. is a Houston, Texas start-up, founded by Michael Suffredini who served as NASA\u2019s International Space Station (ISS) Program Manager from 2005 to 2015. He was responsible for overseeing ISS transition from assembly to the initiation of commercial operations. Axiom is mostly staffed by NASA ex-employees, including [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,1496,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-law","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}