HISTORICAL FACTS: 7 - The Untold Story

The era of private space missions is set to begin

Axiom-1 will be the first private, commercial flight to the International Space Station

The Canberra Times · Apr 2, 2022

Axiom Space VP defends mission to the ISS: “We’re not space tourists”

On Monday, February 28, the company detailed the AX-1 mission, the first-ever private mission to the ISS, currently slated to launch on March 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Inverse · Mar 1, 2022

‘We are not space tourists’: Axiom Space a month out from civilian flight to ISS on SpaceX Dragon

Axiom Space officials may be taking three civilians up to the International Space Station at $55 million a seat along with their own employee, but they’d prefer not to be known as a space tourism company.

Orlando Sentinel · Mar 1, 2022