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First all-private mission to the space station will finally come home

Enlarge / On April 15, Crew Dragon Endeavour is pictured docked to the Harmony module’s space-facing international docking adapter. (credit: NASA) The Crew Dragon spacecraft named Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station on Sunday evening, setting the stage to bring four private astronauts back to Earth. After slowly backing away from the orbiting laboratory, […]

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The Axiom-1 crew launches today—are these guys tourists, astronauts, or what?

Enlarge / The Axiom-1 mission will fly on the fifth mission of this Falcon 9 rocket first stage. (credit: NASA) A crew of four private citizens is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station today on a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center. This is the Axiom-1 mission, named after the private company, […]