Three two one inches one inches full power and lift off Falcon nine go axiom.

Peggy Whitson is America's most experienced astronaut.

She now has spent 675 days in space

and is just back from her fourth flight to orbit.

She was the first woman to command the International Space Station, the only to do so twice,

and holds the record for most space walks by a female astronaut, 10.

The list of accomplishments goes on, but now the retired NASA astronaut is adding another.

First female commander of a private spaceflight, the recently completed Axiom 2 mission.

I like to think of it as we are changing the evolution of the idea

that humanity belongs in space and we have a purpose to be there. So that's to me

that that's changing a bit from where I've come from in the past and I'm

excited about that. The private 10 day AX2 mission was carried out by SpaceX with a four-person crew, including the first Saudi woman in space,

traveling to and from the ISS via a dragon capsule.

The AX2 crew conducted more than 20 research experiments and served as research

subjects themselves before splashing down off the Florida coast on May 30th.

Freedom has returned home with the A.X. 2 crew.

Space XC splash down and main turned home with the AX2 crew.

SpaceC splash down and mains cut.

At this time, you are go for procedure.

It was Axiom's second human spaceflight

as the startup uses data from these trips to help inform development of its commercial space station, which it's working with NASA to deploy.

Whitson is Axiom's director of Human Spaceflight.

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