CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: NASA retiree turned private astronaut Peggy Whitson was launched on the fifth flight to orbit of her career early on Wednesday, joined by crewmates from India, Poland and Hungary heading for their countries’ first visit to the International Space Station. The astronaut team lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at about 2:30 a.m. EDT (0630 GMT), beginning the latest mission organized by Texas-based startup Axiom Space in partnership with Elon Musk’s rocket venture SpaceX.

Fast 300 Menschen waren schon auf der Raumstation ISS - aber noch nie jemand aus Indien, Ungarn und Polen. Das soll sich mit der privaten Raumfahrtmission „Ax-4“ ändern.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: NASA retiree turned private astronaut Peggy Whitson was launched on the fifth flight to orbit of her career early on Wednesday, joined by crewmates from…

Axiom Space, the Houston company that arranged the deal, put the ticket price at more than $65 million per customer.

Countries send their first astronauts in decades into space on Axiom Mission 4, along with US commander

NEW DELHI: India celebrated on Wednesday the launch of the Axiom-4 mission, which has taken off to the International Space Station with a crew including the first Indian astronaut…

Axiom Space, based in Houston, arranged the chartered flight, which was commanded by America’s most experienced astronaut, Peggy Whitson.

Axiom Mission 4 astronauts dock the international Space Station, including the first Indian to set foot on the space station, on Thursday morning.