On January 18, 2024, four private astronauts blasted off from Florida to visit the International Space Station. They are part of Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3), the third private spaceflight organized by Axiom Space and SpaceX.
The Ax-3 crew consists of Michael López-Alegría, a former NASA astronaut and the commander of the mission Walter Villadei, an Italian pilot and entrepreneur Alper Gezeravcı, a Turkish engineer and philanthropist and Marcus Wandt, a Swedish scientist and ESA project astronaut.
