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