First private astronaut mission to space station readies for launch - Rappler

Weather permitting, Axiom's four-man team will lift off on Wednesday, April 6, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, riding atop a Falcon 9 rocket furnished and flown by Elon Musk's commercial space launch venture SpaceX

The International Space Station (ISS) is set to become busier than usual this week when its crew welcomes aboard four new colleagues from Houston-based startup Axiom Space, the first all-private astr… [+4176 chars]

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