SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Axiom Mission 3 Crew to ISS

AX-3 is Axiom Space's third private crew rotation to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. The crew consists of commander and former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría, pilot Col. Walter Villadei of the Italian Air Force, Turkish mission specialist Alper Gezeravci, and ESA astronaut Marcus Wandt of Sweden
Instantaneous launch attempt on January 17th at 4:49PM EST (21:49 UTC)
Mission: F9 launch of Axiom-3 with Crew Dragon Freedom to the International Space Station
Launch location: Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Earth.
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit, 51.6 degree inclination
Booster: B1080-5; 87d 19h 54min turnaround
Booster history: Axiom-2, Euclid, Starlink Group 6-11, and Starlink Group 6-24
Booster recovery: Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1)
Capsule: C212-3 (Freedom); 231d 19h 7min turnaround
Capsule history: Crew-4 and Axiom-2
Capsule recovery: Megan or Shannon
Rocket trajectory: Northeast hugging the east coast of the United States
Stubby nozzle: NO
Mission Commander: Michael López-Alegría (United States, Spain) - 6th spaceflight
Mission Pilot: Walter Villadei (Italy) - 2nd spaceflight
Mission Specialist: Alper Gezeravci (Turkey) - 1st spaceflight
Mission Specialist: Marcus Wandt (Sweden) - 1st spaceflight
Stats:
· SpaceX's 6th launch of the year and the 6th launch of the month
· 271st Falcon orbital launch since Amos 6, F9's 290th orbital flight.
· SpaceX's 73rd launch from LC-39A
· 34th landing on LZ-1 out of 35 attempts
· 191st successful landing since the last failed one
· 43rd orbital flight of a Dragon spacecraft and 12th human spaceflight by SpaceX
· This mission will bring up to 46 the total of people sent by SpaceX to orbit
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[@Booster-13ALIVE]

2:07:25 T- 5 seconds 2:07:30 Ignition and Liftoff! 2:08:36 Max Q 2:09:56 MECO 2:10:00 Stage Separation 2:10:10 Second Stage Ignition 2:10:12 Boostback Startup 2:12:29 Entry Burn 1st Stage 2:13:23 Landing Burn 2:13:32 Landing Legs Deployed and landing 2:14:58 SECO 2:18:06 Dragon Deployment

[@dwbrock1992]

Thank you for providing an option to watch live ish on KZbin. Much love NSF ❣️ you all are amazing. I love our guided nerd talk! Be kind everyone!

[@corrinastanley125]

Great stream and commentary thanks NSF team.

[@ethanh7331]

Saw this one in person. Landing was amazing

[@alanwoerter]

Clouds :) ?

[@petter5721]

Greetings from Sweden 😀🇸🇪

[@TheBestOfSweden]

YES!! 🚀🚀🇸🇪🇸🇪

[@petter5721]

Second Viking in space 👍🏻

[@MickRonald]

Thanks NSF for the coverage. Great commentary as always.

[@turbobusa02]

Love the in cab VIEW during takeoff

[@tubeorip]

I am reviewing. Looks and sounds amazing :) Good work to all involved :)

[@anthonycamilleri7297]

thank you nsf,amazing fotografy love it all

[@zapfanzapfan]

Awesome coverage! Flyg Huginn!

[@petter5721]

😀🇸🇪👍🏻

[@watchboxer]

Amazing job

[@alanlefavour2112]

Best audio post liftoff!

[@michaelreagan7149]

zero-G indicator => freefall indicator :), great coverage as usual!

[@sshtcss]

How can some ppl still think that the earth might be FLAT 🥴🤪

[@belikan3]

They don't think.

[@MiloSkanemane]

Marcus and the team has docket yesterday! 👨‍🚀

[@DrBLReid]

Do they serve dragon milk to the crew in space?

[@simaykut9026]

Alper Gezeravcı ❤🇹🇷👏🏼 Turkey

[@hercomstrbl]

165 congratulations

[@davidsheriff8989]

Did they resolve the coldness inside Dragon as the crew were asked can you hold out for an hour?

[@michaeldemarco9950]

With platinum status, MLA gets to dine high atop the MegaBay.

[@SpaceVYX]

And here we go

[@williame7611]

🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪💙💛

[@Bonjobby1]

2:24:59 what is that flying past?

[@ale131296]

That's a bolt on the structure of the nosecone

[@Papershields001]

If you watch the speed during the entry burn it only went from like 4,600 Kph to like 4,400 kph. I’m telling ya, I bet we see them eliminate entry burns on these ISS rtls flights

[@snakevenom4954]

From what I can tell, Starship won't have an entry burn due to the belly flop it does

[@Papershields001]

@@snakevenom4954 well starship has a heat shield so it’s much better protected from entry heating. Superheavy tho won’t have an entry burn, nor does it have a big heat shield like the ship. They’re just going to keep it slow enough not to need a little entry burn.

[@harmonicajohn1059]

The entry burn IS the heat shield.

[@Papershields001]

@@harmonicajohn1059 on Starlink 6-34 the last drone ship landing from the cape the booster slowed from 8,000kph to 5,500kph during entry burn. During this flight they slowed from 4,600kph to 4,400kph. I’m a bit skeptical that they even need to do an entry burn on lower energy flights like this.

[@harmonicajohn1059]

@@Papershields001 without an entry burn , in the upper atmosphere, it would have increased speed to an unmanageable velocity…. Pretty sure they thought about how much E/B they needed…. At what throttle setting…. After all… it’s rocket science.

[@marcusbeau]

godspeed

[@1337LXD]

Can someone please tell me what type of birds these UFOs are.

[@DrBLReid]

Dragon milk comes from short legged cows.

[@mitchmahoney5586]

Protect Astronauts

[@odysseusrex5908]

From what?

[@mitchmahoney5586]

@@odysseusrex5908 Klingons

[@Veikejas666]

Big question why astronauts can easily lift they hands and do all normally during lift off when it should be nearly į possible at this G pressure.

[@ale131296]

The g force at liftoff is about 1.4, not that much.

[@odysseusrex5908]

How great do you think the G forces are? they never get above about 3 Gs. That's less than you experience on a roller coaster.

[@turkalpkucur]

I am proud to be Turk ! Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Türkiye 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@KennyOcampo98]

Dragon AI work in progress

[@atillaozdemir5367]

🇹🇷💯🌙❤️ ALPONOT ❤️

[@neslinaa]

🇹🇷❤️‍🔥

[@briansowell6582]

Im struck by how the SpaceX announcers feel like they have to explain every mission control callout, to the point they step on 1/2 of them, and can’t even form a coherent sentence. Wish they’d just let us listen.

[@jelmerprins]

You never know when somebody watches for the first time

[@ale131296]

Yeah and even people that may have watched launches before may not remember certain callouts or they just noticed some of them for the first time so it's always good to refresh those. Same way we always point out the steps of the count, the T-20min vent, all the stuff.

[@jessiehill8392]

You can always find a channel that could care less about their audience and newcomers to it. Your complaint is about the same as complaining about a professor giving a lecture in a class you chose to attend.

[@aangelcg]

The announcers no longer broadcast with Starlink launches. But SpaceX has also decreased the number of cameras you can watch the launch with. Now it’s just the pad cam, 3/4 cameras on the rocket, and the landing pad/drone ship camera.

[@odysseusrex5908]

SpaceX, or NSF announcers?

[@neslinaa]

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[@emreakman7083]

The future is in the sky your words. -Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

[@roolrecords]

*"The future is in the skies".

[@chrissybarbosa9787]

Aloha😂🎉❤❤❤ I loved it!!! Congratulations Elon and i love you, forever, I will go to Mars!!!

[@darthjedi99]

22 times the speed of sound and no g forces, wow just wow. Who believes this stuff lol?

[@belikan3]

Constant velocity means zero acceleration (g). Are you lost? Kindergarten is down the hall.

[@odysseusrex5908]

People who paid attention in elementary school science class? G forces are from acceleration, not speed. Once the engines cut off, there are no G forces.

[@alanlefavour2112]

SpaceX early liftoff Audio cranks. Later launches mix sucked.

[@SpaceVYX]

Have a nice time watching the launch everyone

[@hercomstrbl]

GODSPEED 🙏

[@1337LXD]

Donation to NASA is money well spent.

[@lokendrakumar4058]

I am from India but I love my nasa

[@ryancruz1876]

This launch had nothing to do with NASA.

[@gdavidfrye]

Maybe someone will see this comment and respond here. What does it mean to gift a red team membership, i.e. how can a pad rat like me take advantage of that? I see options to purchase one, but if there are memberships sitting out there free, I'd be all over it.

[@dwbrock1992]

So if you gift during a live you are buying a membership for someone who is regularly on KZbin watching who don't have a membership. It's really nice to be able to buy someone else a membership .I use it often. Because a fair amount of people including kids who wouldn't be able to afford a membership I am able to support NSF more while being able to buy memberships for a month for a randomly chosen person in the live.

[@cagrdemirpnar6117]

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[@jimmybrownett5983]

🚩🏃🚶🏃🚶🏃🚶

[@stevebloom5606]

Turkey is NATO, but not EU.

[@petter5721]

Turkey is an Islamist state….

[@lokendrakumar4058]

I love my nasa

[@odysseusrex5908]

NASA has almost nothing to do with this mission. The launch was conducted by SpaceX. The flight itself was organized by and is being controlled by, Axiom Space, although SpaceX owns the capsule, and the mission is being paid for by three different European governments. NASA's only involvement is that they are one of the controlling parties of the destination facility, the ISS.

[@scott3708]

So funny as Nasa and the gov't tries to take credit for these flights.

[@alanwoerter]

😅

[@odysseusrex5908]

How are they doing that? Aside from the fact that these people are flyiing to spend two weeks on a NASA facility.

[@ryancruz1876]

When did NASA take credit for this flight? 🥴

[@TheFritz423]

Regardless, Greedo shot first.

[@Acryloil]

USA!

[@user-do2eh2il6m]

THE BIRDS ARE SHOWING OFF, AS IF TO SAY" THIS IS WHAT FLYING LOOKS LIKE!!!!!" SO THIS IS NOT A MOON SHOT? SO WHEN IS THE ASTRONAUTS GOING TO THE MOON?

[@odysseusrex5908]

Currently, a manned flight around the Moon, Artemis II, is scheduled for late 2025. The next Moon landing is scheduled for late 2026. I expect the landing, Artemis III, to actually be in 2028.

[@itsamemario8014]

All that cheering and applause, bit like people standing around a taxi rank getting all excited every time a cab pulls away, get over it people.

[@user-mw8xk8ph1k]

Did we get Elon taped to the nose of this one?????

[@SpaceVYX]

And here we go

[@dikga24]

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[@petter5721]

It is an international program with a Turk peasant onboard bribed by dictator Erdogan 😂

[@odysseusrex5908]

@@petter5721 doubt he was bribed. Turkish or not, peasant or not, I'm sure he would have jumped at this chance. Regardless of the unfortunate political situation in Turkey, all Turks should take pride in the first Turkish astronaut in space.