The first all-private team of astronauts ever launched to the International Space Station were welcomed aboard the orbiting research platform on Saturday to begin a weeklong science mission.
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The team of four that was selected by Axiom Space Inc., a Houston-based startup, for its first spaceflight and orbital science mission lifted off on Apr. 8 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.