Nearly 15 months ago, the Frenchman released renderings of his designs for the habitation modules for Axiom Space’s first space-tourism program, and then in late January, NASA awarded the company the contract, tasking it with providing at least one habitable commercial module to attach to the International Space Station and thereby creating the world’s first commercial space station. Axiom commissioned Starck to create the interiors of the crew quarters, dining area and galley habitation module for the Axiom Station, which is connected to the International Space Station (ISS).
Once Axiom station begins operation Axiom Space will continue missions contracted for paying customers at the same rate of two to three times a year. NASA announced Jan. 27 that Houston-based Axiom Space will win access to a docking port on the station, to which the company will install a commercial module for research and other applications. NASA has selected Axiom Space of Houston to provide at least one habitable commercial module to be attached to the International Space Station as the agency continues to open the station for commercial … Axiom Commercial Space Station. Credit: NASA/Roscosmos. The International Space Station viewed in October 2018 from the departing Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft. Axiom Commercial ISS 11 Axiom Space says it plans to attach multiple commercial modules to the International Space Station beginning in the latter half of 2024. Credit: Axiom Space NASA has chosen Axiom Space to set up at least one habitable commercial module that will be attached to the International Space Station (ISS), it said in a statement.
In 2018, Axiom contracted French designer Philippe Starck, the son of an aerospace engineer and a space enthusiast, to design the interior of the future Axiom Station's habitation modules.Renderings of the habitat show a chamber with walls that are covered with tufted padding and studded with hundreds of color-changing LEDs.