It's the dawn of a new era in human spaceflight — one where pretty much anyone with deep enough pockets can fly to space. Private company Axiom Space has announced its first all-commercial astronaut crew, which is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) for an eight-day mission early next year.
The three paying customers — each of whom shelled out $55 million for the trip — are American investor Larry Connor, who will serve as pilot, Canadian investor Mark Pathy, and Israeli investor Eytan Stibbe. The three will fly under the command of former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría, now a vice president at Axiom Space and veteran of four spaceflights.
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Six space missions to look forward to in 2021
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The coming year is shaping up to be just as interesting. Here are some of the missions to keep an eye out for.
Artemis 1 is the first flight of the Nasa-led, international Artemis program to return astronauts to the Moon by 2024. This will consist of an uncrewed Orion spacecraft which will be sent on a three-week flight around the Moon. IT will reach a maximum distance from Earth of 450,000km – the farthest into space that any spacecraft that can transport humans will have ever flown.
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1. Space Shuttle Challenger's Jan. 28, 1986, launch was its 10th launch. Overall the shuttle, spent 62 days, 7 hours, 56 minutes and 22 seconds in space, CBS News reported , after being first launched in April 1983.
On board were astronauts Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnik, Michael Smith, Francis (Dick) Scobee, Ronald McNair and schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, the "Today" show reported .
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2. It was initially supposed to be a test vehicle. The building of the shuttle was started by Rockwell Internation in November 1975, then was sent to Lockheed Martin for structural testing in April 1978, Space.com reported .
SpaceX targeting April to launch 4 astronauts from 3 countries to space station
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – Two American, one French and a Japanese astronaut will liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in April marking the third human spaceflight for SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, NASA announced in a blog post.
The NASA, European Space Agency and Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) crew are slated to launch atop the Falcon 9 rocket from launchpad 39A no earlier than April 20 and travel to the International Space Station, where four other astronauts, who also arrived via SpaceX, will be waiting.
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Dayton business mogul to use first private space mission to invest in the birthplace of aviation
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – A Dayton business mogul has been named a crew member on the first private flight to the International Space Station , and he plans to invest what he learns back into his community.
Dayton real estate and technology entrepreneur, Larry Connor, who will be the second-oldest person to fly into space, said he gained interest in the private mission after hearing the story of an American who made international connections to travel outside of Earth.
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