Larry Connor on ISS on Ax-1
Larry Connor, a private astronaut on Axiom Space’s Ax-1 mission, performing an experiment on the ISS in April. A NASA program seeks to send “hyper-specialized” scientists to the station on future private missions for research that could then be handed over to NASA astronauts.

A NASA science division is seeking funding for a program that could fly scientists to the International Space Station on private missions to conduct research that could then be handed off to NASA astronauts.

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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...