Axiom Space's Ax-3 mission is the third-ever private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

The mission will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule on Jan. 17 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and is expected to return about two weeks later.

The crew includes Ax-3 mission commander and former NASA astronaut Michael "LA" López-Alegría, mission specialist Walter Villadei (who also flew aboard Virgin Galactic's Galactic 01 suborbital spaceflight as VIRTUTE 1 mission commander last summer), Turkey's first astronaut,Alper Gezeravcı and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut reserve member Marcus Wandt.

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