The Stars My Destination: Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3)

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

The Space Age
18 January-9 February 2024: Spacecraft Commander Michael López-Alegría (Axiom Space), Pilot Walter Villadei (Italian Air Force), Mission Specialist Alper Gezeravcı (Turkish Space Agency), & Mission Specialist Marcus Wandt (Swedish National Space Agency/European 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 eighteen days docked to the International Space Station (I.S.S.) during Expedition 70, splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean, & were recovered by the M/V Shannon.

López-Alegría was a N.A.S.A. astronaut & a veteran of five previous spaceflights (S.T.S.-73, S.T.S.-92, S.T.S.-113, Soyuz TMA-9 for Expedition 14, & Axiom Mission 1), Villadei was a veteran of a previous suborbital spaceflight (Galactic 01), & Gezeravcı & Wandt were rookies.

Ax-3 was the third flight of the Freedom.

Bonus! Song o' the Day: Ax-3 & the Freedom
Blue Swede, "Hooked On a Feeling" from the Hooked On a Feeling single (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
Ax-2 Launch & Splashdown
Crew-7 Launch
Crew-6 Splashdown

Godspeed & welcome back to the good Earth, Ax-3!