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A private astronaut explains why his next flight — likely with Tom Cruise — is ‘setting the bar for commercial human spaceflight forever’ – Business Insider Australia
This year, a private company may charter a private spaceship, fill it up with private passengers, and fly it to orbit in the hands of a private astronaut.
- Space tourists have been flying to orbit since a millionaire made the first such flight in 2001.
- Now the startup Axiom Space has chartered the first all-private orbital mission, called Ax-1, which may launch as early as October.
- Flight commander Michael López-Alegría, a former NASA astronaut, will be joined by three private passengers, likely including Tom Cruise and the film director Doug Liman.
- “It’s important to me for our crew to be respected,” López-Alegría told Insider. “I don’t want to…
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