Axiom Space makes deal with SpaceX to send customers to space station next year

Axiom Space makes deal with SpaceX to send customers to space station next yearAxiom Space says it's signed a contract with SpaceX to fly three paying passengers and an Axiom-trained commander to the International Space Station aboard a Crew Dragon spaceship as soon as the second half of next year. If Axiom Space, SpaceX and NASA can stick to the schedule, that would qualify the 10-day trip as the first honest-to-goodness privately funded mission to the space station. Paying passengers have been traveling to the space station aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft since 2001, but those missions piggybacked on regular crew-rotation flights. “This history-making flight will represent a watershed moment in the march toward… Read More