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Wednesday 27 January 2021
1st private space crew paying $55M each to fly to station

By MARCIA DUNN and spacewalking leader,
AP Aerospace Writer called the group a “collec-
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. tion of pioneers.”
(AP) — The first private Tom Cruise was mentioned
space station crew was in- last year as a potential
troduced Tuesday: Three crew member; NASA top
men who are each pay- officials confirmed he was
ing $55 million to fly on a interested in filming a mov-
SpaceX rocket. ie at the space station.
They’ll be led by a former There was no word Tues-
NASA astronaut now work- day on whether Cruise will
ing for Axiom Space, the catch the next Axiom flight.
Houston company that Suffredini declined to com-
arranged the trip for next ment.
January. Each of the private astro-
“This is the first private flight nauts had to pass medical
to the International Space tests and will get 15 weeks
Station. It’s never been This combination of photos provided by Axiom Space in January 2021 shows, from left, Larry of training, according to
done before,” said Axiom’s Connor, Michael Lopez-Alegria, Mark Pathy and Eytan Stibbe. On Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, Axiom Suffredini. The 70-year-old
chief executive and presi- announced they will be the first private space station crew, a year ahead of the planned launch. Connor will become the
dent Mike Suffredini, a for- Associated Press second-oldest person to
mer space station program fly in space, after John
manager for NASA. capsule following liftoff for hundreds of thousands volved and doing it for kind Glenn’s shuttle flight in 1998
While mission commander from Cape Canaveral. versus millions — could kick of for the betterment of their at age 77. He’ll also serve
Michael Lopez-Alegria is Russia has been in the off- off this year. communities and coun- under Lopez-Alegria as the
well known in space circles, the-planet tourism business Axiom’s first customers in- tries, and so we couldn’t be capsule pilot.Axiom plans
“the other three guys are for years, selling rides to the clude Larry Connor, a real happier with this makeup about two private missions
just people who want to be International Space Station estate and tech entrepre- of the first crew because of a year to the space station.
able to go to space, and since 2001. Other space neur from Dayton, Ohio, their drive and their inter- It also is working to launch its
we’re providing that op- companies like Richard Canadian financier Mark est,” Suffredini said. own live-in compartments
portunity,” Suffredini told Branson’s Virgin Galactic Pathy and Israeli business- Each of these first paying to the station beginning in
The Associated Press. and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin man Eytan Stibbe, a close customers intends to per- 2024. This section would be
The first crew will spend plan to take paying cus- friend of Israel’s first astro- form science research in detached from the station
eight days at the space tomers on up-and-down naut Ilan Ramon, who was orbit, he said, along with once it’s retired by NASA
station, and will take one flights lasting just minutes. killed in the space shuttle educational outreach. and the international part-
or two days to get there These trips — much more Columbia accident in 2003. Lopez-Alegria, a former ners, and become its own
aboard a SpaceX Dragon affordable with seats going “These guys are all very in- space station resident private outpost.q

Studies extend hopes for antibody drugs against COVID-19

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE Importantly, the drug was None of the new results
AP Chief Medical Writer given as multiple shots rath- have been published or
New results extend hopes er than through an IV. The reviewed by other scien-
for drugs that supply anti- need for an infusion has tists, and the Regeneron
bodies to fight COVID-19, greatly limited the use of ones were based on only
suggesting they can help antibody drugs in the pan- one quarter of patients in
keep patients out of the demic because of health its study and were not a
hospital and possibly pre- care shortages. planned early analysis. q
vent illness in some unin-
fected people. By Dave Green
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