SpaceX Launches Historic Private Mission with Saudi and Female Astronauts.

Saudi Arabia's first astronauts in decades, including the nation's first woman in space, were launched to the International Space Station on a chartered SpaceX flight sponsored by the Saudi Arabian government. The four-person crew, which includes a retired NASA astronaut and a US businessman, will spend just over a week on the station before returning home. The flight was organized by Houston-based Axiom Space, which plans to eventually add its own rooms to the station and create a stand-alone outpost available for hire. NASA now embraces space tourism with two private missions planned a year.