Elizabeth Howell (she/her), Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022 covering diversity, education and gaming as well. She was contributing writer for Space.com for 10 years before joining full-time.
The Ax-3 crew includes, from left: former NASA astronaut and Axiom commander Michael López-Alegría; pilot Walter Villadei of the Italian Air Force, who flew with Virgin Galactic in July 2023; mission specialist Alper Gezeravcı, Turkey's first citizen in space; and mission specialist Marcus Wandt, a reserve astronaut with the European Space Agency.
López-Alegría said the training is going smoothly and that the crew has learned a lot since Ax-1, when other ISS astronauts had to step in to help the crew with their tasks. He said Ax-1 was a startup mission accomplished on an"aggressive timeline" and that Axiom Space has matured its processes since that time.
"She was more available to help the rest of the crew with their experiments, and Ax-3 will follow suit," López-Alegría said. Other changes have been made with training, and with scheduling tools to help the crew manage their time in orbit. As for future missions, he added, the schedule with Axiom Space is comfortable enough for him and Whitson to trade off commands for the foreseeable future, without the need to hire other former agency astronauts yet.
"For people that want to fly to the ISS, it is not strictly needed, or necessary," he added."The training is different. The experience is similar. In just an hour and a half you are going through all the stages of a flight – from the launch, microgravity and then the reentry. But it's definitely a nice platform to test and to strengthen all these training capabilities.
Elizabeth Howell , Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022 covering diversity, education and gaming as well. She was contributing writer forfor 10 years before joining full-time.
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