NASA and Texas-based company Axiom Space have agreed on terms for the first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, which will launch as soon as January 2022.
The mission known as Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) is scheduled to blast off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center as soon as January 2022 for a flight of about 10 days total, about eight of which would be spent on the space station.
Retired NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría, veteran of four spaceflights and vice president of Axiom Space, will lead the mission, seeing his first launch in more than a decade. Three paying passengers will join him: Larry Connor, an American real estate entrepreneur who will serve as pilot on the mission; Mark Pathy, a Canadian investor and philanthropist; and Eytan Stibbe, an Israeli businessman and fighter pilot.
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