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“Once you examine the facts, I think most people can be confident and comfortable that it will be a very safe mission,” says Connor, managing partner of The Connor Group.
Axiom Space in Houston is the private aerospace company behind the mission. Connor will be part of a four-man, multi-national crew on the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft.
“We’ll have a commander, Mike Lopez Alegria, who’s a multi-time shuttle astronaut,” Connor says. “Myself as the pilot, two other mission specialists. And another individual from Canada.”
Connor, an Ohio State University graduate and private pilot, is one of the investors in the space flight. He would not reveal how much money he has spent on this venture, but it's estimated that each of the four-man crew will pay about $55 million for the historic trip.