KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Florida Space Coast is days away from a first of its kind, an all-private mission to the International Space Station.

The crew of Axiom-1 will spend eight days docked at the ISS performing more than two-dozen science experiments.

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The crew said they aren’t tourists, they’re private astronauts.

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Axiom-1 is scheduled to lift off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday.

Space X IN SPACE - FEBRUARY 8: In this handout photo provided by SpaceX, a Tesla roadster launched from the Falcon Heavy rocket with a dummy driver named "Starman" heads towards Mars. (Photo by SpaceX via Getty Images) (Handout/Getty Images)

Space X CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - MAY 30: The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the manned Crew Dragon spacecraft attached takes off from the Kennedy Space Center on May 30, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley lifted off today on an inaugural flight and will be the first people since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011 to be launched into space from the United States. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Space X CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - MAY 30: The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches into space with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken (R) and Doug Hurley aboard the rocket from the Kennedy Space Center on May 30, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The inaugural flight is the first manned mission since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011 to be launched into space from the United States. (Photo by Saul Martinez/Getty Images) (Saul Martinez/Getty Images)

Space X TITUSVILLE, FL - MAY 30: People line the A.Max Brewer Causeway to watch the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida May 30, 2020 in Titusville, Florida . American astronauts Bob Behknen and Doug Hurley are aboard the crew Dragon capsule on a mission to link up with International Space Station. This is NASA's first crewed launch from U.S. soil since 2011 at the ending of the Space Shuttle program. (Photo by Red Huber/Getty Images) (Red Huber/Getty Images)

Space X CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - MAY 30: In this NASA handout image, detail of the exhaust as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASAs SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceXs crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley launched at 3:22 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. (Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images) (NASA/Joel Kowsky/Getty Images)

Space X CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - MAY 30: The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the manned Crew Dragon spacecraft attached takes off from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on May 30, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley lifted off today on an inaugural flight and will be the first people since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011 to be launched into space from the United States. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Space X CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - SEPTEMBER 15: The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with Crew Dragon capsule lifts off from launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for the first completely private mission to fly into orbit on September 15, 2021 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. SpaceX is flying four private citizens into space on a three-day mission. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The crew is in quarantine ahead of a planned launch from the Kennedy Space Center, but held a virtual press conference on Friday.

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“This is opening a new era in spaceflight,” said Axiom-1 commander Michael López-Alegría. “We are taking the first step in a next generation platform initiative that’s going to bring working, living and research in space to a much broader and more international audience.”

López-Alegría is the commander for the Axiom-1 mission, and he also happens to be a retired NASA astronaut.

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He’s flying to the ISS with philanthropist Mark Pathy, former Israeli fighter pilot Eytan Stibbe and entrepreneur Larry Connor.

Axiom-1 is scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center at 12:05 p.m., pending range approval.

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Axiom-1: 1st all-private crewed mission to space station ready to launch from Space Coast

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