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The Byte by Victor Tangermann 2/16/2023

Factory Photos Show Fully Private Space Station Under Construction

It's all coming together.

Building a Station

Space startup Axiom Space is making significant progress on its all-private space station dubbed Axiom Station, which it claims will be "the successor to the International Space Station."

Images shared by former NASA astronaut Micahel López-Alegría, who was part of the startup's first all-private astronaut mission to the ISS last April, show massive segments of the Axiom Station being fabricated at a factory in Italy.

The images show huge metal rings and cylindrical segments that appear to be part of a docking port.

The module dubbed Hab One will eventually be put together in Houston, Texas, and is scheduled to launch in late 2025 — if, that is, everything goes according to plan.

If all goes according to plan, that Ax-2 mission will launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in the spring aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.

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