SpaceX launches crew to International Space Station
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NASA has let Axiom Space make four visits to the International Space Station and a fifth next year, but on Thursday the agency announced a new private company would be allowed a mission as well.
Meir, a marine biologist and physiologist and daughter of an Iraqi-Israeli father and Swedish mother, served as a flight engineer on a 2019-2020 expedition to the space station and participated in the first all-female spacewalks.