Discovery’s new reality show ‘Who Wants to Be an Astronaut?’ will pick one winner to go to space

Discovery’s new reality show ‘Who Wants to Be an Astronaut?’ will pick one winner to go to space

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https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/18/discoverys-new-reality-show-who-wants-to-be-an-astronaut-will-pick-one-winner-to-go-to-space/

Discovery has ordered a new reality show, to air in 2022, which will be an eight episode competition series where competitors will vie for a chance to take a trip to the International Space Station on commercial Axiom Space mission. The winner will be a crew member for AX-2, the second mission from Axiom to transport a fully private group of space travellers to the ISS following AX-1, which is set to take place as early as next January.

Axiom and NASA went into detail about AX-1 earlier this month in a press briefing, explaining that the mission will span eight days and take four paying customers to the orbital science station for a brief stay, with an overall price tag of $1.69 million being paid to NASA for the privilege (which excludes the value of some in-kind supply transport services that Axiom is providing).