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Eytan Stibbe heads to orbiting lab in private charter flight with two other businessmen in hopes of gaining insights into health conditions, agriculture, optics, energy

SpaceX launched three rich businessmen — American, Canadian and Israeli — and their astronaut escort to the International Space Station for more than a weeks stay.

SpaceX launched three rich businessmen — American, Canadian and Israeli — and their astronaut escort to the International Space Station for more than a week's stay.

Friday, SpaceX sent three paying customers and one former professional astronaut to the space station aboard the Axiom-1 private spaceflight mission.

A SpaceX rocket carrying three paying customers and a former NASA astronaut took off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday morning.

According to Axiom, Friday's historic mission "begins a new chapter towards the next-gen platform for breakthrough innovation."

Mission believed to cost businessmen about $55m each

The first fully private mission to the International Space Station blasted off from Florida Friday with a four-member crew from startup company Axiom Space.

The 4-member crew lifted off on SpaceXs Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket at 11.17 a.m. EDT (8.47 pm IST) from Launch Complex 39A at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the company said.

SpaceX’s Axiom-1 mission blasted off into space with four private citizens onboard.