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Space tourists paying $71 million each to be first all-private International Space Station crew

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.
Key points:
- 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 Space, the Houston company that arranged the trip for next January.
“This is the first private flight to the International Space Station (ISS). It’s never been done before,” said Axiom’s chief executive and president Mike Suffredini, a…
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