Irene Klotz
September 30, 2025

Axiom trainer-turned-client Emiliano Ventura, right, works with Axiom-3 mission specialist Marcus Wandt prior to flight. 

Credit: Axiom Space

SYDNEY—Axiom Space unveiled a pilot program to provide personalized training for prospective human spaceflight participants interested in conducting microgravity research. Its first customer is a Portuguese physiologist, Emiliano Ventura, who also helps train Axiom clients for private astronaut…

Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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