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Mark Pathy flew as a Mission Specialist on the private Axiom-1 mission to the International Space Station in 2022.
A NASA Office of Inspector General report published this spring warned that Axiom Space’s new spacesuits might not be operational until 2031.
Quantum Space is part of Kam Ghaffarian’s portfolio, which also includes Axiom Space, Intuitive Machines, and X-energy.
Thales Alenia Space’s modules for Axiom Space’s commercial space station project have also been affected.
Vast, Axiom Space, and Starlab each submitted formal responses to a NASA Request for Information on the commercial market for their space station platforms.
The Axiom Space suit developed under a NASA contract is the primary option for early Artemis lunar surface missions.
Axiom Space has flown twelve commercial astronauts with SpaceX and NASA.
Axiom Space has 166 paying payloads to date.
Axiom Space had 37 active or completed collaboration agreements with NASA by December 2025.
Axiom Space was working toward demonstrating both spacesuits in late 2027 as of January 2026.
NASA awarded both Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace $5 million cross-over task orders in July 2023 so each could begin developing both suit types in parallel.
NASA awarded Axiom Space a $228 million xEVAS task order in September 2022 to develop and demonstrate a lunar spacesuit.
In May 2022, NASA awarded xEVAS contracts to Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace.
NASA approved partial milestone payments to Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace in December 2023 despite firm-fixed-price contract terms requiring full milestone completion before payment.
NASA now relies on Axiom Space as the sole active xEVAS provider after Collins Aerospace was removed from the contract.
If Axiom Space experiences delays consistent with the historical average, neither next-generation spacesuit would be ready until 2031.
Axiom Space became the sole active xEVAS provider after Collins Aerospace departed.
NASA received only two bids for xEVAS, from Collins Aerospace and Axiom Space.
NASA is encountering compatibility conflicts between Axiom Space’s spacesuit design and Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Human Landing System.
NASA awarded Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace spacesuit contracts in 2022.