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www.privateairny.com Private Air | Winter 2020/2021 30 While there are a handful of space companies promising short thrusts out of the atmosphere, only one - Axiom Space - is offering an out-of-this-world Low Earth Orbit experience with 10-day missions to the ISS. Given a leadership team that includes the former NASA ISS Program Manager, and in excess of 35 years of collective human spaceflight experience, future astronauts are in good hands. At the helm of the SpaceX Axiom Space-1, launching October 2021, will be a uniquely qualified individual, Commander Michael Lopez-Alegría, a U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame and 4-time astronaut, who has spent 257 days in space and amassed 67 spacewalk hours, the most of any US astronaut. Alongside him in the capsule will be three private astronauts. is is not science fiction! Training alongside NASA astronauts, these "Space Tourists" will take the first-ever privately crewed and managed human spaceflight to ISS, marking a turning point in the history of our species. Among those slated for future Axiom missions are movie icon Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman, who will shoot the next "Mission: Impossible" film 250 miles above the earth! Perched in Earth's orbit and experiencing life in weightlessness creates unique creative freedoms and inspiration. Previous astronauts have pursued anything from painting and photography, to producing music, communicating with students back on earth, and promoting philanthropic endeavors. All have returned empowered to share what they have learned, and the causes dearest to them, with a global megaphone. As Commander ML-A says, the experience of seeing a sunrise and a sunset every 45 minutes, of seeing the whole of humanity spread out below you, of seeing land masses but no borders, and realizing that we are all in this together and there is no "Planet B" creates a cognitive shift in all those who have experienced this unique perspective. e "Overview Effect" instills in the viewer a global consciousness, a primordial, unending connection to Earth and all life on it, and the desire to better care for our place of origin. e next chapter in human spaceflight is here, and these visionary early private space travelers - Space Pioneers - will forever be credited as the forerunners that made this future for humanity a reality. Will you be among them? http://www.AxiomSpace.com Commander Michael Lopez-Alegría ABOVE, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Axiom Earth Observatory; Axiom Modules connected to ISS; Axiom Station Crew. Images Courtesy of Axiom

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