Ax-1 is now targeted for April 3, and Crew-4 will launch no earlier than April 19.
Ax-1, the first-ever all-private crewed mission to the station, had been scheduled to lift off on March 30. However, Axiom
that the launch has been pushed to April 3 at the earliest to"allow teams to complete final spacecraft processing ahead of the mission."And that change in turn delays Crew-4, which had been aiming to get off the ground on April 15. "The current no-earlier-than launch date is Tuesday, April 19, pending completion of program reviews expected early next week to formalize the new target," NASA officialsThe extra time will"allow appropriate spacing for operations and post-flight data reviews between human spaceflight missions and to allow for multiple consecutive launch attempts based on the orbital mechanics for arrival to the space station," they added.
Ax-1 will send four people to the space station for an eight-day stay. Three of them are paying customers, and the fourth is mission commander Michael López-Alegría, a former NASA astronaut who now works for Axiom. will deliver NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins and the European Space Agency's Samantha Cristoforetti to the orbiting lab. The quartet will spend months aboard the station conducting a range of science experiments.
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