SpaceX Launches Ax-3 Astronauts To The Space Station

Axiom Space's third commercial spaceflight with SpaceX, launches four astronauts to the Iinternational Space Station ISS, lifting off at 2149 UTC from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida aboard a Falcon 9 rocket and its Dragon spacecraft Freedom. The Ax-3 mission is commanded by former NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria of Axiom Space, with Walter Villadei of the Italian Air Force serving as pilot. Turkey's first astronaut, Alper Gezeravc, and European Space Agency reserve astronaut Marcus Wandt round out the crew as mission specialists