1) fly commercial passengers to the International Space Station, initially using the Crew Dragon spacecraft then others as they become available. The customers would be those doing commercial or government experiments, private visitors, etc. The missions will be named AX-1, AX-2, etc.
2) launch the Axiom Node One module to the ISS in 2024, then expand. AxN1 is under construction in Europe at Thales Alenia Space. This would be followed by several other modules, roughly one every year. The AX-(n) mission crews would move into these habitats.  3) in the late 2020 s these modules will disconnect from the ISS, becoming a free-flying commercial Axiom Station.Â
Meet the people paying $55 million each to fly to the space station Christian Davenport From left, Axiom crew members Eytan Stibbe, Michael Lopez-Alegria, Mark Pathy and Larry Connor. (Axiom Space) Two are grandfathers, the other has three young children. All three are extremely wealthy, with the means to pay the $55 million ticket price for an eight-day stay on the International Space Station. They are the first would-be spaceflight crew comprised entirely of private citizens in a mission to the station. Sometime early next year, if all goes according to plan, the trio Larry Connor, the managing partner of the Connor Group, a real estate investment firm based in Ohio; Mark Pathy, the chief executive of Mavrik Corp., a Canadian investment firm; and Eytan Stibbe, a businessman and former Israeli Air Force fighter pilot will lift off from the Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for what is scheduled to be an eight-day stay on the Intern
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The four men will voyage to orbit in 2022 aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft
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The Ax-1 crew, from left to right: Michael López-Alegría, Mark Pathy, Larry Connor and Eytan Stibbe. Credit: Axiom Space
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crew of the first entirely-private orbital space mission will include the second oldest person to launch into space, the second Israeli in space, the 11th Canadian to fly into space and the first former NASA astronaut to return to the International Space Station, the company organizing the history-making flight has announced.
Axiom Space on Tuesday (Jan. 26) revealed its clients for its first privately-funded and operated mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) flight is being arranged under a commercial agreement with NASA.
Axiom names first private crew paying $55 million for a trip to the ISS
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An American real estate investor, a Canadian investor, and a former Israeli Air Force pilot are paying $55 million each to be part of the first fully private astronaut crew to journey to the International Space Station. The trio will hitch a ride on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule early next year, with a veteran NASA astronaut as the commander.
The Ax-1 mission, arranged by Houston, Texas-based space tourism company Axiom Space, is a watershed moment for the space industry as companies race to make space travel more accessible to private customers instead of governments. Private citizens have trekked to the space station in the past, but the Ax-1 mission marks the first to use a commercially built astronaut capsule: SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, which flew its first two crews to the ISS last year.
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