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Axiom Space intends Axiom Station to succeed the International Space Station as a next-generation commercial platform once the current laboratory is retired.
NASA selected Axiom Mission 5 from proposals submitted in response to a March 2025 NASA Research Announcement seeking additional private astronaut missions.
Axiom Mission 5 is expected to spend up to 14 days aboard the International Space Station.
NASA will acquire from Axiom Space the capability to return scientific samples that must remain cold during transit from the station back to Earth.
For Axiom Mission 5, Axiom Space will purchase mission services from NASA including crew consumables, cargo delivery, storage, and other in-orbit resources needed for daily operations.
Jonathan Cirtain is president and CEO of Axiom Space.
Once approved and confirmed, the Axiom Mission 5 crew will undergo joint training with NASA, partner agencies, and the launch provider in preparation for the flight and on-orbit operations.
The four earlier Axiom missions expanded the global community of human space explorers, diversified scientific investigations in microgravity, and yielded insights that support development of Axiom Space's planned commercial Axiom Station.
Under the mission order, Axiom Space will propose four crew members for review by NASA and its international partners.
The continuing series of Axiom flights forms part of NASA's transition to commercial low Earth orbit services by demonstrating how commercial companies can provide transportation and on-orbit services while government agencies focus on setting requirements and enabling new markets.
Vast and Axiom are each building private space stations intended to vie to replace the International Space Station.
The previous five private astronaut missions to the ISS were flown by Axiom.
As part of the NASA award for Ax-5, Axiom Space added Voyager Technologies as a teammate participating in payload integration.
NASA signed a mission order with Axiom Space for the fifth private astronaut mission (PAM) to the International Space Station, marking the fifth consecutive PAM award granted by the agency.
Axiom Mission 5 (Ax-5) is expected to spend up to 14 days docked to the International Space Station.
Axiom Space missions were the first time astronauts from Saudi Arabia, India, Poland, and Hungary lived and worked onboard the International Space Station.
Axiom Space is one of the companies with proven human spaceflight experience positioned to lead as the United States transitions from government-led to commercial-enabled space operations.
Axiom Space missions tested a therapeutic drug that entered clinical trials last year.
Axiom Space executed four missions onboard the International Space Station over a four-year period.
Axiom Space missions included the first female Saudi astronaut and the first Turkish astronaut to launch to space.