[3][4] The company's employees include former NASA Administrator Charles Bolden[5] and astronauts Michael Lopez-Alegria, Peggy Whitson, Brent W. Jett Jr and Koichi Wakata.

[8] After retiring from NASA, Suffredini and Kam Ghaffarian started Axiom Space to target the emerging commercial spaceflight market.

[citation needed][14] In 2020, as part of the broader Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) cislunar initiative, NASA awarded Axiom a US$140 million contract to provide at least one habitable spacecraft to attach to the ISS.

[16] The modules constructed by Axiom Space are designed to commercially provide services and products in the low Earth orbit economy.

Renderings of the habitat show a chamber with walls that are covered with tufted padding and studded with hundreds of colour-changing LEDs.

[29] Axiom Space intends to commercialize microgravity research and development, using the ISS National Lab until its modules are operational.

[citation needed] In early June 2021, Axiom Space announced a deal with SpaceX which added three additional crewed flights to the ISS, for a total of four.

[38] Two astronauts from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ali Alqarni[39][40] and Rayyanah Barnawi[41][42] were also on board as mission specialists.

The flight will launch no earlier than spring 2025 and carry four people to the ISS,[43] including veteran astronaut Peggy Whitson.

[44] In January 2022, the Axiom Space Mission Control Center (or MCC-A) completed its first on-orbit science payload operation on the ISS.

At this time, MCC-A, located at Axiom's HQ in Houston, TX, was registered as a payload operations site.