America's most experienced astronaut says her fully commercial visit to the International Space Station this week is a critical step on the road to space tourism, private-sector orbital research and development of commercially operated space stations.
America's most experienced astronaut says her fully commercial visit to the International Space Station this week is a critical stepping stone on the road to space tourism, private-sector orbital research and development of commercially operated space stations.veteran of three NASA flights with a U.S.
Even short, suborbital flights provided by Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, which launched a piloted test flight Wednesday,"provide some access to space, and I think that's important for developing our commercial platforms in low-Earth orbit and beyond." And she envisions a future when"you could be the worker on some future station doing the housekeeping or doing the maintenance on the hardware that breaks."
She logged a total of 665 days and 22 hours in space during those three flights — the most time in orbit for any American and the most by any female flier. She also participated in 10 spacewalks totaling more than 60 hours, putting her fifth in the world and No. 1 among female fliers. Axiom Space is using the private astronaut missions to gain the expertise needed to build and operate a stand-alone commercial space station that can be used by government and private-sector astronauts and researchers after the International Space Station is retired at the end of the decade.
"Just learning the ropes and developing new techniques that we think will be more efficient for use on Axiom's station is really important as precursor steps. When we have a module up here, we'll be working from that same mission control as we're building it out. And so I think it's an extremely important step for us."
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