Shadowing the newsreader
Listen to the newsreader read out each line and then practise saying it. Record your own voice line by line and submit your voiceover.
The first private astronauts are on the International Space Station.
They're doing work for Axiom Space.
Axiom's a private business.
It has a contract with SpaceX and NASA.
The head of this mission is an ex-NASA astronaut.
His name's Michael Lopez-Alegria.
The other three people are rich businessmen.
They paid to visit space.
One is American investor Larry Connor.
Mark Pathy is a Canadian investor.
The third is Israeli investor Eytan Stibbe.
The 8 day trip cost each person $55 million.
But they have 25 research projects to do.
They're making space buildings with smart tiles.
They're doing tests to stop diseases too.
Axiom's astronauts are working with 7 space station astronauts.
Three are from the US.
One's from Germany.
And three are from Russia.
Axiom wants to build a private space station.
This will replace the International Space Station.
