Billionaires Sent to Space Weren’t Expecting to Work So Hard on the ISS

If you ’re one of a few people rosy enough to be able to afford a $ 55 million ticket to space , the betting odds are that you ’re not much accustomed to toilsome labor . Members of theall - private gang to the International Space Stationrecently reflected on their journeying to low Earth orbit , complaining that they had too much work to do aboard the testing ground as it circled our planet .

During a press conference on Friday , the four - man crowd of Axiom Space ’s Ax-1 mission admitted that they tried to fit too much into their docket , which terminate up putting a strain on them as well as on the astronaut gang that was already living and working on the station , SpaceNews cover .

“ In essence , the reaching of the Axiom personnel office seemed to have a larger - than - expect impact on the daily workload on the professional International Space Station bunch , ” said Susan Helms , a former NASA cosmonaut and member of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel , during a panel meeting on Thursday .

Ax-1 Commander Michael López-Alegría had to log in some hours during his stay on the ISS.

Ax-1 Commander Michael López-Alegría had to log in some hours during his stay on the ISS.Photo: Eytan Stibbe/Axiom Space

The crew get in on the ISS on April 9 , packing an impressive experimental payload with them that included experiments on holoportation , human cells , and high - preciseness optical lens . But being that it was their first time in space , and that they are neither professional spaceman nor researchers , some of the experiment ended up taking quite a lot long than anticipated . One experimentation that was meant to take just two and a half hours establish on pre - flight training ended up occupying double that amount of meter , according to entrepreneur and investor Larry Connor , who was a fellow member of the Ax-1 mission .

“ Our timeline was very fast-growing , specially ahead of time in the mission , ” Michael López - Alegría , former NASA astronaut who overtop the mission , said . “ The pace was frenetic in the beginning . ”

The mission was ab initio mean to last for eight night , but stop up beingextendedto 15 days due to unfavourable weather condition postponement . The ISS first - timers were not complaining about spending that extra metre above Earth ’s atmosphere , as that allowed them to take in the extraordinary views ( one of the things they surely expect for the price of admission ) . “ It was a blessing to have the special clock time , ” López - Alegría said . “ I think we were so focused on enquiry and outreach in the first 8 or 10 solar day on cranial orbit that we require the extra time to make out the experience by get time to look out the window , to make contact with friends and family , to just enjoy the sensation . ”

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But their extended halt mean that the ISS remained cramped , what with 11 astronauts onboard . Some of the science module only set aside for four cosmonaut or fewer to carry on experiment at the same time , which meant that the Axiom-1 crew ended up slightly disrupting the schedules of the regular ISS cosmonaut .

The fellowship is already prepping for the launch of the second crew to the ISS , having betray three seats , let in one designate for an cosmonaut from the United Arab Emirates , on a SpaceX Crew Dragon .

Axiom Space President Michael Suffredini referred to these issues as part of a “ lessons learned ” treatment that the private quad troupe was have with NASA and SpaceX following the first private crew mission to the ISS . “ Over time , we ’ll reduce what the crew has to do , ” Suffredini said during the news group discussion .

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