Members of the all-private crew
to the ISS recently complained that they had too much work to do aboard the laboratory as it circled our planet.
Four-man crew of Axiom Space’s
Ax-1 mission tried to fit too much into their schedules which ended up putting a strain on them as well as on the astronaut crew that was already living station
A former NASA astronaut said
the arrival of the Axiom personnel seemed to have a larger-than-expected impact on the daily workload on the professional ISS crew
The crew arrived on the ISS
on April 9, packing an impressive experimental payload with them that included experiments on holoportation, human cells, and high-precision optical lenses
But being that it was their
first time in space, and they are also not professional astronauts some of the experiments ended up taking quite a lot longer than anticipated
One experiment that was meant
to take just two and a half hours based on pre-flight training ended up occupying double that amount of time