First Private Space Crew Announced
January 27, 2021 9:19AM CST
HAWTHORNE-CA-MAY 29: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveils the company’s new manned spacecraft, The Dragon V2, designed to carry astronauts into space during a news conference on May 29, 2014, in Hawthorne, California. The private spaceflight company has been flying unmanned capsules to the International Space Station delivering cargo for the past two years. The Dragon V2 will ferry up to seven astronauts to low-Earth orbit. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
The crew members for the first-ever privately-funded space mission have been announced. The Houston-based private company Axiom Space on Tuesday revealed its first clients to be sent to the International Space Station. The crew will include a former astronaut, a former Israeli fighter pilot, a Canadian philanthropist and the second oldest person to ever fly into space. The four men will fly to the ISS next year on a SpaceX Crew Dragon under a commercial agreement with NASA. It’ll cost them 55-million-dollars each.
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