The first fully private space tourism mission has arrived at the International Space Station.
The first fully private space tourism mission has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS), with a SpaceX Crew Dragon carrying four private astronauts — Michael Lopez-Alegria, Larry Connor, Eytan Stibbe, and Mark Pathy — as part of the Axiom Mission 1. During the journey, the crew checked in via a live video feed to discuss their liftoff and their experiences of space travel so far. They began with mission commander Michael Lopez-Alegria describing the course they were taking: “We’re currently over the southern tip of South America flying in a path that will take us over the south Atlantic to Nigeria, out over around Cairo, and up into Lebanon, Syria, and then into Asia,” he said.
