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  • Axiom reveals private crew paying $55 million each for a trip to the space station

    01/29/2021 5:45:23 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 9 replies
    cnet ^ | Jan. 28, 2021 8:36 a.m. PT | Erin Carson
    Houston-based space tourism company Axiom Space said Tuesday it will send a crew of three private citizens, plus its vice president and former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría, to the ISS for an eight-day stay, no earlier than January 2022. The crew includes American entrepreneur and investor Larry Connor, who will be the pilot; Canadian philanthropist and investor Mark Pathy; and Eytan Stibbe, a former Israeli Air Force pilot who's also an investor and philanthropist. To get to the ISS, they'll hitch a ride on the SpaceX Crew Dragon. The crew will live aboard the US segment of the ISS during...