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Axiom Space cuts ribbon on newest facility at Houston Spaceport

By James T. Norman | 2:16 PM Dec 7, 2023 CST
Updated 2:16 PM Dec 7, 2023 CST

Roughly 18 months after breaking ground, Axiom Space officials cut the ribbon Dec. 7 on their new 400,000-square-foot facility at the Houston Spaceport.

What you need to know

The company is aiming to manufacture the world’s first commercial space station and train private astronauts. The goal is to launch the company’s first module by 2026, and will receive some of the items needed to start building it as soon as 2024, President and CEO Michael Suffredini said at the event.

Those modules will latch onto the International Space Station, officials said in May 2022. Once the ISS is decommissioned around 2030, those modules will detach and latch onto each other and remain as a commercial space station.