CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space history was made Friday morning as the first-ever private astronaut mission blasted off to the International Space Station.
Now was also made Saturday morning as Michael López-Alegría, Larry Connor, Mark Pathy, and Eytan Stibbe docked to the space-facing port of the International Space Station's Harmony module.
It was the first all private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. Axiom Space astronauts lifted off at 11:17 a.m. on Friday, April 8, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Endeavour autonomously docked to the space-facing port of the station’s Harmony module just after 8 a.m. Saturday.