Today's a special day for Stibbe and the Ax-1 crew as the Israeli astronaut will celebrate Passover in space. All the colors of this very fragile atmosphere that surrounding our planet and protecting us." "You see the Earth, and you see the atmosphere and different colors, sometimes red, green, brown, yellow. "The sights from here are amazing, especially during sunset," Eytan Stibbe, an Israeli entrepreneur and Ax-1 mission specialist, added during the livestreamed event (opens in new tab). Ax-1 pilot and American entrepreneur Larry Connor said he would love a trip to the moon after this flight, if the opportunity arises. On Wednesday, the commercial astronauts spoke with students at Space Center Houston in Texas to describe what their mission's been like. The four private astronauts of Axiom Space's Ax-1 mission have hit the one-week mark of their 10-day mission to the International Space Station. They are (from left): Ax-1 pilot Larry Connor commander and former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría Canadian entrepreneur Mark Pathy and Israeli entrepeneur Eytan Stibbe. The four private astronauts of the Axiom Space Ax-1 mission to the International Space Station wave to students at Space Center Houston during a video call on April 13, 2022. The private astronauts will spend 11 days in space, eight of them on the space station, performing experiments, sampling a gourmet menu cooked up by celebrity chef José Andrés and enjoying their spaceflight experience. The Ax-1 mission, which will launch former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría and paying paying passengers Larry Connor, Mark Pathy and Eytan Stibbe to the station, will now lift off at 12:05 p.m. NASA's fueling test, called a wet dress rehearsal, will begin on April 1 and end on April 3. NASA, however, must complete its first fueling test of its Artemis 1 moon rocket by the same day at the nearby Pad 39B, prompting the agency to take priority. SpaceX initially planned to launch the Ax-1 mission on April 3, Sunday, from Pad 39A of NASA's Kennedy Space Center. NASA, SpaceX and Axiom space have delayed the launch of the Ax-1 mission to no earlier than April 6 due to a conflict with the space agency's Artemis 1 moon rocket fueling test this weekend. T16:58:09.324Z Ax-1 mission launch delayed to April 6
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