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First private astronaut crew set to launch to space station

By Elizabeth Faddis
Published April 7, 2022 1:05am ET
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First private astronaut crew set to launch to space station
A Texas-based space company is sending the first all-private astronaut crew to the International Space Station on Friday. Four astronauts from Axiom Space in Houston will take off from NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida “riding atop a Falcon 9 rocket furnished and flown by Elon Musk’s commercial space launch venture SpaceX,” according to Reuters. […]

A Texas-based space company is sending the first all-private astronaut crew to the International Space Station on Friday.

Four astronauts from Axiom Space in Houston will take off from NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida “riding atop a Falcon 9 rocket furnished and flown by Elon Musk’s commercial space launch venture SpaceX,” according to Reuters. The plan is for the group to conduct science and technology experiments, and they will return to Earth after 10 days.

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