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Axiom Space CEO Michael Suffredini (left) signs an agreement with the Saudi Space Commission Sept. 22 to fly two Saudi astronauts on a future mission.

Axiom Space will fly two astronauts from Saudi Arabia, one of them a woman, to space as soon as next year, the company and the Saudi government announced Sept. 22.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...