WASHINGTON — Commercial space station developer Axiom Space has replaced its chief executive after less than six months on the job.

The Houston-based company announced Oct. 15 that it hired Jonathan Cirtain as president and chief executive, a move it described as a “strategic leadership change to advance the company’s development of critical space infrastructure.”

Cirtain replaces Tejpaul Bhatia, who was named chief executive April 25 . Bhatia joined Axiom as chief revenue officer in 2021 and was promoted to CEO after helping secure more than $1 billion in contracts, including the company’s series of private astronaut missions to the International Space Station.

Cirtain is an astrophysicist who spent nearly a decade at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and later joined BWX Technolog

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