Reed said the process will be completed tonight. "However, in an abundance of caution, we've decided to go ahead and get those cells exactly to the amount that they need to be filled with this thermal protective protection material on those nine fasteners." "We're actually fairly confident that that would be okay that we could we could fly the dragon that way and then come back and reenter with the amount of fill that we have there. Nine fasteners on a panel near the top of Dragon spacecraft had less thermal protection filler material than expected, Reed explained, so a team is using a crane near the rocket to reach the site to fill the gaps in those fasteners in time for flight. One final rocket checkīenji Reed, SpaceX's senior director for human spaceflight programs, said that a final check of the mission's Dragon capsule Freedom did reveal one issue that needed to be resolved. SpaceX has only two days to try to launch Ax-2 this week before standing down to make way for a planned cargo mission for NASA on June 3 and Boeing's planned launch of the first Starliner crewed flight to the station in July, NASA has said. There is a 60% chance of good weather at launch time, Space Force weather officials said. But that weather forecast dwindles down to just a 20% chance of good weather of SpaceX has to delay 24 hours to Monday, May 22. EDT (1800 GMT), while NASA's livestream will begin at 4:30 p.m. SpaceX's launch webcast will begin at 2 p.m. You can watch the Ax-2 launch live online on, courtesy of SpaceX and NASA. "Oh, let me tell you we are a little excited about this and the fact that we are going to space shortly," Whitson told reporters in a teleconference May 16.
Now, she'll be the first woman to command a private spaceflight. Commanding the mission is Peggy Whitson, a former NASA astronaut who was the agency's first female Chief Astronaut and first female commander of the space station. The mission will be a historic one not only will it be the second-ever all-private mission to the station, but it will also put the first woman from Saudi Arabia in space - Rayyanah Barnawi - as part of the nation's first astronaut class. They are: (from left) Saudi astronaut Rayyanah Barnawi investor and pilot John Shoffner former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and Saudi astronaut Ali AlQarni. The Axiom Space Ax-2 private astronaut crew smiles in their Dragon capsule during launch rehearsal.
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