LIVE SpaceX Ax-3 Spaceflight Mission Presented by The Rumination Project 🚀🧑‍🚀

Axiom Space and SpaceX are set to kick off a busy year for human spaceflight with a Space Coast launch planned for this evening. 🛰️🚀🌌☄️

The commercial Ax-3 mission is set to lift off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket topped with the Crew Dragon Freedom making its third ever flight to space targeting liftoff at 5:11 p.m. with a backup opportunity Thursday at 4:49 p.m.

On board are former NASA astronaut and Axiom chief astronaut Michael López-Alegría acting as mission commander leading three European customers: Italian Air Force Col. Walter Villadei, who will act as pilot, and mission specialists Alper Gezeravcı of Turkey and ESA project astronaut Marcus Wandt of Sweden. It’s the first all-European commercial crew to space with López-Alegría having both U.S. and Spanish citizenship.