SpaceX announced it has signed a deal with startup Axiom Space to take tourists, private researchers, astronauts from foreign countries and other individuals outside of NASA's astronaut corps to the International Space Station
SpaceX announced it has signed a deal with startup Axiom Space to take tourists, private researchers, astronauts from foreign countries and other individuals outside of
's International Space Station program from 2005 to 2015, in a statement."Procuring the transportation marks significant progress toward that goal."Read MoreSpaceX teams up with space tourism agency to sell rides aboard its spacecraftAxiom declined to share information about pricing, but previous tourism missions to the ISS have cost passengers tens of millions of dollars.The Axiom deal marks the second space tourism-related announcement for SpaceX in a month.
has relied on the Russian-made Soyuz spacecraft to get US astronauts to the space station. But after completing its last major testing milestone in January, Crew Dragon now appears to be on track to fly its first crewed mission by spring. has talked at length about encouraging more commercial activity at the space station, which orbits about 200 miles above ground. Last year, the space agency said it would allow up to two trips to the ISS per year for non-government astronauts. A
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