Ax-1 Mission Crew Returns to Earth Written 26 April 2022
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Axiom Space’s Ax-1 astronauts, Michael López-Alegría, Larry Connor, Eytan Stibbe, and Mark Pathy splash down off the coast of Florida at 1:06 p.m. EDT on Monday, April 25th | Credit: SpaceX; YouTube; framegrab
Space.com reports that the Ax-1 mission’s four crewmembers returned to Earth Monday, successfully concluding “the first-ever all-private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.” The SpaceX crew capsule “carrying the four crewmembers … splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida” Monday at 1:06 p.m. EDT, “bringing the groundbreaking 17-day flight to a close.”
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