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You can now take a ten-day trip to the ISS for the low price of just $55 million

Axiom Space has announced that it is now willing and able to send people on a round trip to the International Space Station for 10 whole days. The trip will cost the customer $55 million and will launch sometime in 2021. The company intends to send 3 people to the ISS at a time.

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Fri Mar 06 - TechCrunch

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