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Following their brief stint on board the International Space Station (ISS), Axiom Space’s Mission 2 (Ax-2) crew is back on Earth with an altered view of the planet that we call home.Three Astronauts May Be Stranded on the ISS After Disturbing Soyuz Coolant Leak“Can you believe we landed less than 48 hours ago?” Ax-2 Commander Peggy Whitson exclaimed during a press conference on Thursday. “It’s still striking to me to think about it, but everything was just so fast.”Axiom Space launched its second private mission to the…

The International Space Station (ISS) just welcomed new guests, a private crew of four astronauts who are settling in on board the orbiting lab and learning to adapt to the microgravity environment. Better Mobility & Cameras: NASA & Axiom's New Spacesuits | TechmodoAxiom Space launched its second private mission to the ISS on Sunday, with the crew members arriving to the space station at 11:00a.m. ET on Monday following a roughly 16-hour journey through space. The crew members are set to spend around eight days…

SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule, named Freedom, is seen docked with the International Space Station, May 22, 2023.SpaceXSpaceX delivered another quartet of astronauts to the International Space Station on Monday morning, on a private flight that included government astronauts from Saudi Arabia as the Arab kingdom leverages U.S. companies to expands its ambitions in space. Axiom Space booked the roughly week-long trip, known as the Ax-2 mission, to the ISS with Elon Musk's company. SpaceX launched the four people Sunday…

Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin work outside the International Space Station to deploy and activate a radiator on the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module during a five-hour and 14-minute spacewalk. From top to bottom, the main station elements are Nauka, with the European robotic arm and an experiment airlock attached, the Prichal docking module, and the Soyuz MS-23 crew ship. Credit: NASAThe second private astronaut mission, Axiom Mission-2 (Ax-2), has been cleared for launch to the <span…