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NASA and its international partners announced Wednesday that they had approved crew members for Axiom Space's first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

The four-member crew will be the first batch of private astronauts to board the flying laboratory and work onboard for eight days.

NASA has confirmed the details of the four civilian astronauts that will spend a week living and carrying out experiments on the International Space Sta

The flight, called Ax-1, is made up of one professional astronaut and three paying customers.

In the recent blog post by NASA, the space agency, together with its international partners, officially announced their approval of Axiom Space's first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.

NASA gives green light to the four people that will make up the first private mission to the International Space Station, liftoff on March 30

Private space flight is up for a new important milestone.

They will launch on Wednesday, March 30, from Launch Complex 39A at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on a flight-proven SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Axiom_mission_1_crew.jpg Axiom Mission 1 astronauts, Larry Connor, left, Michael Lpez-Alegra, Mark Pathy, and Eytan Stibbe, right. The astronauts

/PRNewswire/ --NASA and its international partners approved crew members for Axiom Spaces first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station....