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�����о���’s internal Flight Readiness Review (FRR) for Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2) to the International Space Station (ISS) has concluded. The review evaluated company and crew readiness across the departments supporting the Ax-2 mission.  

The Ax-2 crew includes Commander Peggy Whitson, Pilot John Shoffner, and Mission Specialists Ali Alqarni and Rayyanah Barnawi from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than 5:37 p.m. EDT on Sunday, May 21 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew will travel in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and launch on a Falcon 9 rocket. 

During the mission, the four-person multinational astronaut crew will conduct more than 20 different experiments while aboard the space station, made possible by �����о���’s full-service integration into the NASA process for science and technology activities onboard the ISS. Ax-2 is the second private mission to the ISS and an important step along the journey of building the world’s first commercial space station, Axiom Station, in low-Earth orbit.

The next mission milestone review is the NASA FRR. During the review, leaders from NASA, �����о���, and SpaceX will discuss the mechanics and readiness of the Ax-2 mission, including rendezvous, docking, on-orbit operations, and undocking at the ISS orbital complex.  

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