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Alegría was there to unveil the spacesuit he wore when he led an Axiom Space mission, which was the first ever private ...

Axiom Mission-1 (Ax-1) commander Michael Lopez-Alegria poses with the flight suit he wore on the first all-private astronaut mission to the International Space Station as it is now on display at ...

The Kennedy Space Center unveiled its newest exhibition – the flight suit worn by Astronaut Michael López-Alegría’s during ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. When Michael Lopez-Alegria commanded the first privately funded crewed mission to visit the ...

Michael López-Alegría may be the first in history, and as early as next year. If the roughly 10-day mission goes as planned, it'd be the first all-private orbital space mission. It's not just ...

Lopez-Alegria is currently the chief astronaut for Axiom Space, having completed six missions, flying on Ax-1, Ax-3, space shuttle missions STS-73, STS-92, and STS- 113, and Soyuz TMA-9.

"It costs NASA $3.5 billion a year, not to mention what the other agencies are providing [to operate and maintain the ISS]," Michael López-Alegría, Axiom's vice president of business development ...