AXIOM SPACE

The contracts are valued at up to $3.5 billion.

NASA announced Houston-based Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace were chosen to move forward in developing the next generation of spacesuits for Artemis missions at the Moon and the International Space Station. Authorities made the announcement at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The headquarters will be where the aerospace company will train private astronauts and begin production of its Axiom Station

Axiom Space has signed a deal with the space agency of the United Arab Emirates to fly a UAE astronaut to the ISS on SpaceX's Crew-6 mission for NASA, which is expected to launch in spring 2023.

Four private astronauts made history today (April 25), splashing safely down on Earth after completing the first fully private crewed mission aboard the International Space Station.

The mission was the first of what Axiom Space hopes will be a regular cadence of private citizens visiting the station.

The first American privately funded mission to the International Space Station ends today with an anticipated splash down off the coast of Florida at about 1:06 p.m. EDT (1706 GMT).

The pioneering Ax-1 mission has left the International Space Station and is headed back to Earth.

NASA and SpaceX delayed the undocking of private Ax-1 astronauts from the International Space Station by another day due to bad weather.

The first-ever all-private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is about to head for home, and you can watch the departure live.

Trouble getting the Axiom-1 crew back to Earth triggers domino-like delays for upcoming missions.

See SpaceX and Axiom Space's historic all-private mission to the International Space Station in photos.

Ax-1, the first-ever fully private crewed mission to the International Space Station, will get to spend 12 extra hours aboard the orbiting lab.

Ax-1's Mission Specialist Eytan Stibbe will perform the Fluidic Telescope Experiment (FLUTE), on behalf of NASA and the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, investigating the use of liquids to construct telescope lenses in microgravity.

The astronauts of the first-ever fully private crewed mission to the International Space Station will commemorate their groundbreaking flight with some digital artwork.

This morning (April 8), a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off, launching the first fully private mission to the International Space Station.

Four private citizens took off Friday on a SpaceX rocket en route to the International Space Station. The Axiom Space mission is the first flight to the station with an all-civilian crew.

A crew of three wealthy entrepreneurs and a former NASA astronaut, who is serving as their guide, will spend eight days on the station in an endeavor commissioned by Axiom Space, a Houston-based company.

Axiom Space has successfully launched its first-ever Ax-1 (Axiom Mission 1) crew to orbit on Friday morning.

The upcoming Ax-1 mission is perhaps the beginning of a new era in human spaceflight — not because of the identity of the private astronauts, but because of the ecosystem that's emerging around them.

The Axiom-1 flight carries a crew of four private citizens, with a former NASA astronaut as mission commander.

The first all-private crewed mission to the International Space Station is ready to fly, mission leaders announced today (April 7).

The launch of Crew-4 had been scheduled for April 19. But it'll now lift off no earlier than April 20, and NASA and SpaceX are also considering the backup date of April 23.

History will be made when four all-private astronauts make their way on the first all-private mission to the International Space Station as part of Axiom Mission 1.

On Tuesday (April 5), SpaceX rolled the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule that will fly the Ax-1 mission out to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission won't wrap up a crucial test until this weekend at the earliest.

The launch of the first U.S. privately-funded civilian space mission heading for the International Space Station will be delayed to at least Friday (April 8), Axiom Space announced.

Houston company Axiom Space has a huge science haul planned for its debut mission, including robots and filters that could assist with future space exploration at the moon or Mars.

The flight is the first of up to two NASA-sanctioned "private astronaut missions" per year to space station.

The first all-private mission to the International Space Station by Axiom Space will launch no earlier than April 6.

Axiom Space and its crew are ready to make history.

A brain 'headset' aims to provide a high-resolution view of neural changes that happen in the brain while space, and it will fly aboard Axiom Space's first crewed launch, Ax-1.

The Ax-1 mission has been pushed from April 3 to April 6 to accommodate the "wet dress rehearsal" of NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission, which is taking place this weekend on Florida's Space Coast.

Axiom SpaceX's Ax-1 private space station mission is cleared for launch, but only after NASA's Artemis 1 tests.

On April 3, 2022, SpaceX and the private spaceflight company Axiom Space will make history with the launch of Ax-1, the first all-private mission to the International Space Station. Ax-1 will send four private space travelers on a 10-day trip to the station to conduct science and push commercial spaceflight forward. They will fly on a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket. Its crew includes former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría and paying passengers  Larry Connor, Mark Pathy and Eytan Stibbe. See our full coverage of the Ax-1 mission below. Ax-1 mission explained | Axiom Space |  International Space Station

The World Central Kitchen founder says the mission invokes "the spirit of eating paella from the same pan."

It’s going to be a busy few weeks on the International Space Station.

Medical research and tech transfer will fill the agenda of the four Axiom-1 crewmembers after they launch to the space station on March 30.

The International Space Station represents a U.S. partnership yet unaffected by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

NASA, SpaceX and Axiom Space will discuss a landmark private space mission today (Feb. 28), and you can watch it live.

The flight, called Ax-1, is made up of one professional astronaut and three paying customers.

NASA just released a report outlining the big-picture goals for the rest of the orbiting lab's operational life, which is expected to end with a controlled deorbit in January 2031.

U.K.-based Space Entertainment Enterprise (SEE) has announced plans to launch a movie production studio module intended to connect to the International Space Station.

Spacecraft prep and orbital traffic pushed the first all-private space station mission one month later.

Axiom Space plans to operate its own space station in low Earth orbit in the coming years, and it has inked deals with SpaceX to fly multiple tourist missions to the International Space Station.

Even as commercial spaceflight company Axiom Space prepares to launch the first fully private crew to the space station early next year, its engineers are also developing in-house spacesuits.

A new era of space stations is about to kick off. NASA has announced three commercial space station proposals for development, joining an earlier proposal by Axiom Space.

Space.com caught up with Axiom Space's Matt Ondler recently to discuss the company's space station plans and the outlook for private industry in low Earth orbit, among other things.

The actor will join a private space movement that has picked up speed and outpaced NASA.

On Friday's show: A preview of the Houston Women’s March, an update on some key developments in Congress, a conversation with an astronaut from Axiom Space, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the week, and musicians Wendy and Lisa from Prince's band, The Revolution.

Inspiration4 may be over, but many other missions are poised to follow in its pioneering footsteps.

Record-breaking astronaut Peggy Whitson will return to space to command a commercial mission for Texas-based Axiom Space, three years after her retirement from NASA in 2018.

Axiom Space will fly three additional crewed missions to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule, the two companies announced today (June 2).

Former astronaut Peggy Whitson will return to orbit as commander of a private mission to be launched by Axiom Space.

HOUSTON – The Houston Spaceport will be home to the world’s first space station to built by a commercial space company. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner announced Tuesday that Axiom Space will build a 14-acre headquarters at the city’s spaceport next year and provide 1,000 high-paying jobs. Suffredini said the first module of the Axiom space station is set to be launched in late 2024 and will be the first commercial module to be attached to the International Space Station. Once the ISS is retired, the Axiom modules will detach and remain in low-earth orbit. Axiom will also provide commercial missions to the space station, the first of which is expected to launch late next year, Suffredini said.