Private astronaut missions to the International Space Station will have to be chaperoned by a former NASA astronaut, per new proposed requirements from the US space agency.
posted a public notice online on Tuesday that laid out a handful of updated requirements for future private astronaut missions, which the agency said are based on lessons learned upon completion of the first private astronaut mission to the ISS that took place last April.
government astronaut as the mission commander," according to the astronaut also"provides a link" between residents on the ISS and the private astronauts, which the agency said"reduces risk" to ISS operations and safety. Read MoreLate last year, SpaceX launched the Inspiration4 mission, which was bankrolled by billionaire Jared Isaacman and had a four-person crew composed entirely of people without any prior spaceflight experience.
was a lot more comfortable having someone who'd been there before." "We were having a meeting and we looked around the room and I was the only guy who'd been to space, so I raised my hand. I volunteered," López-Alegría quipped at the conference.
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