Watch Axiom Area’s second non-public flight to the ISS with us at 5PM ET

In lower than two hours, non-public house agency Axiom Area is about to launch its second all-civilian flight. At roughly 5:37PM ET, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will try to hold the four-person crew, together with former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, to the Worldwide Area Station. You possibly can watch the mission because it unfolds from the Kennedy Area Middle beginning at 5PM ET. NASA will stream the launch on its website and YouTube channel. You too can watch the flight on Axiom Space’s website and proper right here.

Ax-2 is the observe as much as Axiom Area’s first non-public house flight, which successfully carried a crew of civilian astronauts to the ISS final 12 months. Along with Whitson, the crew of Axiom Mission 2 is made up of entrepreneur John Shoffner and Saudi astronauts Ali AlQarni and Rayyanah Barnawi. After the Ax-2 workforce arrives on the ISS early Monday morning, they are going to spend the subsequent eight days aiding the house station’s crew with a handful of experiments. Axiom Area plans to fly one other mission to the ISS later this 12 months.