Axiom Mission 2 was the second all-private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. Ax-2 is launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center aboard SpaceX’s Dragon Freedom spacecraft—it’s the same capsule that carried NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts to the station in 2022.
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