Oyogist has learned that Axiom Space, a start-up based company in Texas, alongside SpaceX have agreed to launch a team of four private astronauts to the International Space Station as early as next year.
The Mission is set to be carried out early next year.
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he trip will also include not less than eight days on the International Space Station and two days of travel time to and from the orbiting laboratory, Axiom added.
Axiom said in a statement, that the mission would be “the first-ever fully private” trip to the station.
“This history-making flight will represent a watershed moment in the march toward universal and routine access to space,” Axiom CEO Michael Suffredini said in the statement. “This will be just the first of many missions to ISS to be completely crewed and managed by Axiom Space – a first for a commercial entity.” it said further.
