A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft atop, sits on the pad at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 8, 2022, in preparation for the Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) liftoff. Commander Michael López-Alegría of Spain and the United States, Pilot Larry Connor of the United States, and Mission Specialists Eytan Stibbe of Israel, and Mark Pathy of Canada are aboard the flight to the International Space Station. The Ax-1 mission is the first private astronaut mission to the space station.