This is CBS. I'm the World. Behind the Black, Bob Zimmerman. It is happy birthday anniversary,

15 years behind the Black, especially looking at commercial space, which tends to dominate the story

once upon a time a mere five or six years ago commercial space was rare at least in the

headlines now it's routine in all directions and the company named axiom has reason to celebrate

bob a very good evening to you a commercial man mission to i ss imaginable 10 years ago what's happened

axiom?

Yes, John, but I do want to mention that I am doing a fundraiser for the 15th anniversary

of Behind the Black and your donations and subscriptions would really be appreciated from

your listeners.

They've always been very generous and I really appreciate, because it keeps me going, pays the bills.

Axiom, it's another commercial space operation.

They pay the bills.

They launched their fourth manned tourist mission to ISS two weeks ago, and the mission returned to Earth this week, after spending 18 days in space and 14 days at

ISS it was launched on a Falcon 9 rocket in the fifth dragon capsule SpaceX has built

for its fleet of manned reusable capsules this one they they dubbed Grace, that's the name they gave it.

And it's interesting that now SpaceX has a fleet larger than the shuttle fleet ever was,

five craft compared to just four for the space shuttle at its biggest.

So this mission was up at ISS.

They were there.

They came back, splashed down off the Atlantic.

The three passengers on board, there was a command of Peggy Woodson,

former NASA restaurant that now works for Axiom.

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