The Stars My Destination: Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2)

Better Late than Never | Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea máxima culpa!

The Space Age
21-31 May 2023: Spacecraft Commander Peggy Whitson (private), Pilot John Shoffner (private), Mission Specialist Ali Alqarni (Saudi Space Agency), & Mission Specialist Rayyanah Barnawi (Saudi Space Agency) lifted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center's LC-39A aboard the Crew Dragon Freedom (Dragon C212) atop a Falcon 9 rocket, spent nine days docked to the International Space Station (I.S.S.), splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean, & were recovered by the M/V Megan.

Whitson was a N.A.S.A. astronaut & a veteran of three previous spaceflights (STS-111 [launch]/STS-113 [landing] & Expedition 5; Soyuz TMA-11 & Expedition 16; & Soyuz MS-03 [launch]/Soyuz MS-04 [landing] & Expeditions 50, 51, & 52); Shoffner, Alqarni, & Barnawi were rookies. Barnawi is considered the six hundredth (600th) human in space.

Ax-2 was the second flight of the Freedom.

Bonus! Song o' the Day: Ax-2 & the Freedom
Bombskare, "Freedom 35" from The Day the Earth Stood Stupid (Space Cadet Mike Papa Whiskey)

The Wayback Machine Tour of Launch America
2020
Demo-2 Launch
Demo-2 Splashdown
Crew-1 Launch
2021
Crew-1 Relocation
Crew-2 Launch
Crew-1 Splashdown
Inspiration4 Launch & Splashdown
Crew-2 Splashdown
Crew-3 Launch
2022
Ax-1 Launch & Splashdown
Crew-4 Launch
Crew-3 Splashdown
Crew-5 Launch
Crew-4 Splashdown
2023
Crew-6 Scrub
Crew-6 Launch
Crew-5 Splashdown
Crew-7 Launch
Crew-6 Splashdown

Godspeed & welcome back to the good Earth, Ax-2!