The new tiered program gives governments with no space infrastructure access to state-of-the-art orbital research facilities.
Axiom Space, the private space firm that helped send tourists up to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, has announced a new program that will make human spaceflight accessible to nations that don't have their own space infrastructure.
The Axiom Space Access Program will offer governments a tiered approach to researching the International Space Station or Axiom's upcoming space station.The new program will give governments the unprecedented opportunity to fly their astronauts. To date, astronauts from many countries have flown to space, though they have done so, for the most part, via U.S., Russian, or Chinese launch infrastructure.
"The real key is that turnkey access at affordable, sustainable, and predictable rates," Bhatia continued. For the base tier of the Axiom Space Access Program, the company provides countries with advice and insight and gives those nations priority access to upcoming missions. The second tier allows research and development activities. The third enables governments to send astronauts to space on a regular mission, while the fourth allows countries to co-develop part of Axiom's stations with their own interests in mind.
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