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Space tourists paying $71 million each to be first all-private International Space Station crew – ABC News
Space tourism will resume in January 2022 with three men joining an eight-day mission to the ISS, using a SpaceX Dragon capsule for the first fully private flight…
The first fully private, multi-person space station crew has been introduced: three men who are each paying $US55 million ($71 million) to fly on a SpaceX rocket.
- The flight will mark the first tourist flight to the ISS since 2009, when Russian Soyuz rockets carried individual passengers
- An experienced former NASA astronaut will be mission commander and pilot
- Each passenger had to pass medical tests and will get 15 weeks of training
They will be led by a former NASA astronaut now working for Axiom…
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