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Ax-1, 1st all-private crewed flight to ISS, aims to blaze trail for future missions

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Axiom Space aims to set a standard for future crews with its pioneering mission to the International Space Station (ISS) next month. Axiom’s Ax-1, the first all-private crewed mission to the orbiting lab, is scheduled to launch on March 30 and last for 10 days. Ax-1’s four spaceflyers — three paying customers and Axiom’s Michael López-Alegría, … Read more

NASA getting SLS megarockets ready for crewed moon missions

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The giant rockets that will carry NASA astronauts to the moon a few years from now are really starting to come together.  In a brief status update posted on Tuesday (Jan. 11), NASA officials wrote that the agency and its manufacturing partners have made “great progress” on putting together the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket … Read more