SpaceX is set to launch another crew of private astronauts, including two representing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to the International Space Station Sunday afternoon in a mission chartered by Axiom Space.
. She is now Axiom’s director of human spaceflight and would build on her impressive legacy with her fourth spaceflight mission.
John Shoffner, an American businessman who founded a fiber-optic cable company, will serve as the pilot on the mission. He’s a in a nod to the growing commercial space sector, which the space agency now relies on for a number of crucial missions, including flying its own astronauts to the ISS.
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