NASA/AXIOM/SPACEX POST-FRR AXIOM-1 MEDIA TELECON, Mar 25, 2022, virtual, ~6:00 pm ET

NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX will hold a media telecon on March 25, 2022 following the Flight Readiness Review (FRR) for the Axiom-1 (Ax-1) mission to the International Space Station.  The telecon is tentatively scheduled for 6:00 pm ET, but could change if the FRR takes longer than expected in which case the telecon will take place 1 hour after it’s completed.

This is the first U.S. private astronaut mission to ISS (a previous private astronaut flight, Inspiration4, did not visit ISS).  One Axiom employee (Michael López-Alegria, a former NASA astronaut who has made four spaceflights already) and three wealthy men will spend 8 days on ISS as part of this 10-day mission that is scheduled for launch on April 3.

Participants in the telecon are:

• Kathryn Lueders, associate administrator, NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate
• Dana Weigel, deputy manager, NASA’s International Space Station Program
• Angela Hart, program manager, NASA’s Commercial Low-Earth Orbit Program
• Michael Suffredini, president and CEO, Axiom Space
• Derek Hassmann, operations director, Axiom Space
• William Gerstenmaier, vice president, Build and Flight Reliability, SpaceX

Audio will be livestreamed on NASA Live.