{"id":21806,"date":"2024-01-21T00:52:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T16:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/the-first-all-european-spaceflight-mission-lifts-off-with-axiom\/"},"modified":"2024-01-21T00:52:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T16:52:01","slug":"the-first-all-european-spaceflight-mission-lifts-off-with-axiom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/the-first-all-european-spaceflight-mission-lifts-off-with-axiom\/","title":{"rendered":"The first all European spaceflight mission lifts off with Axiom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Axiom-3 shows again how human spaceflight has changed<\/h2>\n

At 4:49 P.M. ET SpaceX launched Crew Dragon Freedom on top of a Falcon 9 rocket from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. By the time the webcast started the four crew members were inside their spacecraft and closeout crews were already finishing up their task at the rocket. The stakes just as high, the journey as important as ever, the hype reduced to a short two and a half hour livestream.<\/p>\n

In the past we\u2019ve talked about how Axiom has made it possible to provide human spaceflight capabilities to nations that have none. On Ax-3 that capability continues at a new level, flying the first only European crew to space.<\/p>\n

While ESA is hoping to one day build its own homegrown human spaceflight program, it has yet to do so. For decades ESA astronauts have relied on NASA and Russian rockets to launch research missions to the ISS. While the entire mission isn\u2019t European, Axiom and SpaceX are both US companies, ESA now has way more opportunities to fly to space than before.<\/p>\n

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