Four men leave Earth on a commercial mission to spend eight days at the orbiting platform.
Four astronauts have left Earth on the first all-private mission to the International Space Station .crew. Axiom is a commercial spaceflight company that hopes to build its own space station in the next few years.
Flying alongside him are US real estate entrepreneur and aerobatic pilot Larry Connor; Israeli investor and philanthropist Eytan Stibbe; and Canadian entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist Mark Pathy. The Axiom Space company was founded in 2016 to exploit the emerging market for commercial activities in low Earth orbit - everything from tourism to manufacturing.
The company has an agreement with Nasa to add its own modules to the American segment of the ISS. The idea eventually is that these modules will bud off on their own to become a fully private LEO destination just before the ISS is retired.
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