After a good two weeks on board the International Space Station ISS, a private astronaut crew consisting of a Hungary, a Poles and an Indian who came safely on Earth on Tuesday.
With a “crew Dragon” from the SpaceX Space Company of Tech billionaire Elon Musk, the space travelers landed in the sea off the coast of the US state of California. The crew had moored from the ISS about 23 hours earlier. There are also approximately 260 kilos of freight on board the “Dragon”, including scientific accessories.
With the so -called “Axiom -4” mission, an Indian, a Hungarian and a pole on board, it was ISS for the first time. The Indian Shubhanshu Shuccla works for the Air Force in his country, the Hungarian Tibor Kapu and the pole Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski are engineers. Also part of the fourth commercial space emission of the Axiom Space Company based in Houston in Texas in collaboration with NASA and SpaceX was the former NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson. It has long -term space experience.
In the video below you can see a recording of the landing:
The purpose of the missions
According to media reports, a flight via Axioma costs around 70 million euros per passenger. In 2022, the company organized the first private mission for the ISS and others followed. With almost three weeks, the fourth Axiom mission was the longest excursion of commercial space travel. The missions are part of a long -term strategy from NASA to open the almost -earthbaan more for commercial space travel.
Source: Krone
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