The First Private Crew Blasts Off for the Space Station

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10 days in space—at $55 million per seat

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from launch complex 39A carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft on a commercial mission managed by Axion Space at Kennedy Space Center April 8, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.he dining will be fine aboard the International Space Station throughout the next week.

Space tourists have flown to the ISS before—eleven of them over the past two decades; but all of them were solo adventurers who paid to fly aboard publicly funded ships crewed by professional astronauts. AX-1 is the first fully private mission to the station—but not the last. Axiom has at least three more such missions planned in the coming years.

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