spacetoday.net: Axiom Space announces crew of first private ISS mission

Axiom Space announces crew of first private ISS mission

Posted: Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 9:38 AM ET (1438 GMT)
Axiom Space announced on Tuesday the crew of its first private mission to the ISS next year. The Ax-1 mission, scheduled for launch no earlier than next January on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft will fly three customers to the station: Larry Connor, Mark Pathy and Eytan Stibbe. Former NASA astronaut Michael LÃ³pez-AlegrÃa, now working for Axiom, will command the mission. The three passengers are paying an estimated $55 million each for the mission, which will spend eight days at the station. Notably absent from the announcement was actor Tom Cruise, who was long rumored to be flying to the station with director Doug Limon to shoot a movie there.