Axiom Space Facts for Kids

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Axiom Space, Inc.

Type	Private incorporated company
Industry	Aerospace industry
Founded	2016
Founder	Michael Suffredini Kam Ghaffarian
Headquarters	Houston, Texas United States
Key people	Michael Suffredini (CEO) Kam Ghaffarian (Executive Chairman) Amir Blachman (CBO) Brent W. Jett Jr Charles Bolden Christian Maender Matt Ondler Michael Lopez-Alegria
Services	Human spaceflight In-space research & manufacturing
Number of employees	60 (2020)

Axiom Space, Inc. is an American company which plans to create segments to attach to the International Space Station and later create a new Space station. It also plans to run private trips into, for example AX-1, with SpaceX.

Axiom Space Station
Missions
- Planned
  - AX-1
  - AX-2
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See also

Axiom Space Station

Axiom modules connected to ISS

Axiom Earth Observatory interior

Axiom Space plans to create segments to attach to the ISS and increase the number of their segments in space until they separate their segments from the ISS, which will create their own separate space station.

Missions

The mission names start with "AX" which stands for Axiom Space, followed by the mission number.

Planned

AX-1

Axiom Space plans to send four people to the ISS onboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon. It has told the public who three of the four people are: Michael Lopez-Alegria, Tom Cruise and Doug Liman. They have not decided who the fourth person will be. AX-1 will be the first time that a mission to the ISS where commercial companies are the only mission operators and managers. It will cost US$55 million to send each person to the ISS.