An astronaut and a group of three tourists flew into orbit, each paying $ 55 million to participate in the mission.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket flew to Florida on Friday, April 8, aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft, which will take a crew of four tourists to the International Space Station. About that reported company press office.
Thus, the first tourist space flight on the ISS, which is an Axiom Space project, was launched from the John F. Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral. This is the first of two flights of space tourists into orbit secured by a contract with NASA.
The crew is astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, who previously worked for NASA, and a group of tourists: American businessman Larry Connor, Canadian investor Mark Paty and Israeli businessman Eitan Stibbe.
As you know, for a round-trip flight and an eight-day stay on the ISS, each of the three civilian passengers paid $ 55 million.
According to SpaceX, the launch went as planned – in the third minute, the first stage broke away from the launch of the vehicle and, according to the company’s technology, soon landed on a platform in the Atlantic for later use. . Crew Dragon docking will take place on Saturday morning.
Falcon 9 launched the first all-private human spaceflight mission in @space_station pic.twitter.com/krDfQyaVTO
– SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 8, 2022
Ax-1 in orbit pic.twitter.com/tpY8qtSaJj
– SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 8, 2022
It will be recalled that on September 19 last year, the Crew Dragon spacecraft, the crew of which for the first time consisted of four civilians, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after three days in Earth orbit.
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Source: korrespondent
