{"id":116033,"date":"2020-11-19T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/spacex-will-launch-israels-second-astronaut-aboard-crew-dragon"},"modified":"2020-11-19T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T18:00:10","slug":"spacex-will-launch-israels-second-astronaut-aboard-crew-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/spacex-will-launch-israels-second-astronaut-aboard-crew-dragon","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX will launch Israel\u2019s second Astronaut aboard Crew Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-will-launch-israels-second-astronaut-aboard-crew-dragon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Axiom Space, a start-up from Houston, Texas, signed a deal with SpaceX to launch a crew of four private passengers atop a Falcon 9 rocket aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft on a voyage to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission, known as AX-1, will be the first fully-commercial private passenger mission in history, scheduled to launch during the second half of 2021. \u201cThis history-making flight will represent a watershed moment in the march toward universal and routine access to space,\u201d Axiom Chief Executive Officer Michael Suffredini said in a press release earlier this year. \u201cThis will be just the first of many missions to ISS to be completely crewed and managed by Axiom Space \u2013 a first for a commercial entity. Procuring the transportation marks significant progress toward that goal, and we\u2019re glad to be working with SpaceX in this effort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The private passengers will be lead by former NASA Astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, who has been to space four times; he will be Axiom\u2019s AX-1 Mission Commander. After SpaceX successfully launched four Crew-1 astronauts to the space station this week, Lopez-Alegria shared his excitement to soon ride aboard SpaceX spacecraft. \u201cGod willin\u2019 and the creek don\u2019t rise, I\u2019ll be leading the AX-1 crew on the first purely commercial orbital mission in history a little over a year from now \u2014 on this very SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. It\u2019s gonna be a Blast!\u201d Lopez-Alegria said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axiom Space, a start-up from Houston, Texas, signed a deal with SpaceX to launch a crew of four private passengers atop a Falcon 9 rocket aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft on a voyage to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission, known as AX-1, will be the first fully-commercial private passenger mission in history, scheduled [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116033","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=116033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}