The faces of Connor, Pathy and Stibbe lit up again as López-Alegría recognized each as official space explorers.
"There's a tradition that when you cross a certain boundary — and that boundary is debatable, but in the United States it is at 50 miles — you become an astronaut [by] altitude, and that happened to these three gentlemen for the first time yesterday," López-Alegría said.
As each Ax-1 astronaut was pinned, they spoke briefly about arriving at their new home and research platform for the next eight days. "I'm thrilled and honored to be up here," said Connor, who became only the second private astronaut to serve as the pilot of an orbital spaceflight."Thanks to SpaceX for the phenomenal ride. I mean, no pun intended, but [it was] out of this world."
"We're here to experience this," he added, 'but we understand there's a responsibility and the responsibility is for this first civilian crew to get it right. And that's what we are fully committed to, with the support of everybody here at the ISS and and on the ground. So it is going to be a busy week of research for us and I'm sure it's going to fly by."
Axiom Space, SpaceX, Dragon Endeavour, launched today with grace and splendour. Engineering and collaboration, we are proud, our work for the future always vowed. A day to remember, forever to explore, of these missions, let there be more.
They are lucky astronauts they are in space station