The Russian Space Agency’s second private space mission and first woman catch a space x flight to spacestat: Axiom Space
Visitors to the station will have access to most of the building as they conduct experiments and take pictures of Earth, and will have the opportunity to speak to children at home.
After decades of shunning space tourism, NASA now embraces it with two private missions planned a year. The Russian Space Agency has been doing that for a long time.
NASA’s latest price list shows per-person, per-day charges of $2,000 for food and up to $1,500 for sleeping bags and other gear. Are you able to get your stuff to the space station in advance? Ten grand per pound is the same fee for trashing it afterwards. Need your items back intact? The price is doubled.
The 10-day mission will be paid for by Shoffner and Saudi Arabia. The price was previously cited by the company.
The private flight is the second one organized by Houston-based Axiom Space. The first was last year, by three men, with a retired NASA astronauts. The company plans to start adding its own rooms to the station in another few years, eventually removing them to form a stand-alone outpost available for hire.
Rounding out the visiting crew: Knoxville, Tennessee’s John Shoffner, former driver and owner of a sports car racing team that competes in Europe, and chaperone Peggy Whitson, the station’s first female commander who holds the U.S. record for most accumulated time in space: 665 days and counting.
Source: https://www.npr.org/2023/05/21/1177445179/saudi-astronauts-including-nations-1st-woman-catch-a-spacex-flight-to-space-stat
First female astronaut in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia — The Whitson flight — returned to space with a retired engineer and a sporting car racing team
Barnawi said that this was a dream come true for everyone. “Just being able to understand that this is possible. If Ali and I can do it, so can they.
They’re the first from their country to ride a rocket since a Saudi prince launched aboard shuttle Discovery in 1985. In a quirk of timing, they’ll be greeted at the station by an astronaut from the United Arab Emirates.
The first woman from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabian went to space thanks to a grant from the government. She was joined by Ali al-Qarni, a fighter pilot with the Royal Saudi Air Force.
The space station should be reached on Monday morning and the three men and one woman will travel there over a week before returning to Earth.
The company that arranged the trip brought in a retired NASA engineer as the lead for the ticket-holding crew. The owner of a sports car racing team is also on board.
What is the big deal? Though her NASA days are over, Whitson recently went back to space on a chartered flight as commander. It included Saudi Arabia’s first astronauts in decades.
The Post-Flight Crash: A Journey Through Time’s Wind and the Gravitational Waves from the Red Planet to the Galaxies
I find it very difficult. I refer to it the post-flight slump, where I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do. It’s ironic because you get a lot of motivation from that daily routine of “Here’s how much I want to try and get done today,” and a lot of direction. And the initial return process feels a little directionless.
The death in space and the life force I saw coming from the planet were the two things I realized were death and life.