Crew training begins soon for first private trip to ISS

Washington (AFP) May 10, 2021

Training of the crew for the first entirely private trip to the International Space Station (ISS) is to begin soon, Axiom Space, the company behind the flight, said Monday at a joint press conference with NASA. Four astronauts are to be launched to the ISS in late January aboard a rocket built by another space company, Elon Musk's SpaceX. Only one of the four - NASA veteran Michael Lope