The crew of the first private mission to the International Space Station is back on earth after more than two weeks in space.
On Monday, the capsule, with four men on board, landed as planned off the coast of Florida in the Atlantic Ocean after its departure from the ISS had been postponed several times due to weather conditions.
The group — consisting of Spanish-American astronaut Michael López-Alegría, US entrepreneur Larry Connor, Israeli entrepreneur Eytan Stibbe and Canadian investor Mark Pathy — departed Cape Cosmodrome on April 8 in a Crew Dragon spacecraft Canaveral in the US state of Florida.
The trip to the ISS was organized by the private space company Axion Space, in cooperation with the US space agency Nasa and SpaceX, a company owned by billionaire Elon Musk.
According to media reports, the Axiom passengers each paid around 55 million dollars (about 50 million euros) for the flight.
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