The first fully private mission to the International Space Station blasted off from Florida Friday.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft aboard is seen at sunset on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39AFLORIDA - The first fully private mission to the International Space Station blasted off from Florida Friday with a four-member crew from startup company Axiom Space.
"We're taking commercial business off the face of the Earth and putting it up in space," NASA chief Bill Nelson said ahead of lift-off. But unlike the recent, attention-grabbing suborbital flights carried out by Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, Axiom says its mission shouldn't be considered tourism. "The distinction is that our guys aren't going up there and floating around for eight days taking pictures and looking out of the cupola," Derek Hassmann, operations director of Axiom Space, told reporters at a pre-launch briefing.In addition, crewmember Stibbe plans to pay tribute to his friend Ilan Ramon, Israel's first astronaut, who died in the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster when the spaceship disintegrated upon reentry.
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