{"id":394536,"date":"2026-04-16T03:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/394536\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T03:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:05:08","slug":"voyager-selected-by-nasa-for-seventh-private-astronaut-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/394536\/","title":{"rendered":"Voyager Selected by NASA for Seventh Private Astronaut Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">DENVER&#8211;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BUSINESS WIRE<\/a>)&#8211;Voyager Technologies (NYSE: VOYG) has signed an order with NASA for the seventh Private Astronaut Mission to the International Space Station, launching no earlier than 2028.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\n\u201cThis award reflects decades of partnership with NASA and validates our belief that the infrastructure being built in low-Earth orbit today is the launchpad for humanity&#8217;s future in deep space,\u201d said Dylan Taylor, Chairman &amp; CEO, Voyager. \u201cFrom the International Space Station\u2019s first commercial airlock to the seventh private astronaut mission, Voyager is committed to making American human spaceflight stronger, more capable, and more sustainable at every step of the journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\nThe seventh private astronaut mission, called VOYG-1, supports NASA\u2019s strategy to transition low-Earth orbit operations to the private sector, establishing a sustainable framework where commercial partners deliver safe, reliable and cost-effective human spaceflight services that extend the agency\u2019s legacy of exploration.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\nThis mission is the next evolution of Voyager\u2019s human spaceflight portfolio, serving as the bridge to commercial space stations and future deep-space platforms. It stress-tests and refines the life-support technologies, crew operations protocols and integrated systems architectures that lunar surface missions will require.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\nThe mission also reinforces the momentum behind Voyager&#8217;s broader strategic <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fvoyagertechnologies.com%2Fpress-releases%2Fvoyager-launches-strategic-lunar-initiative-to-anchor-americas-next-era-in-space%2F&amp;esheet=54513182&amp;newsitemid=20260415327488&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=lunar+initiative&amp;index=1&amp;md5=d0e53c466d743b11f00cbf349893d977\" shape=\"rect\" target=\"_blank\">lunar initiative<\/a> and its multi-million-dollar <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fvoyagertechnologies.com%2Fpress-releases%2Fvoyagers-strategic-investment-in-max-space-to-advance-permanent-lunar-habitat-infrastructure%2F&amp;esheet=54513182&amp;newsitemid=20260415327488&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=investment+in+Max+Space&amp;index=2&amp;md5=37952a82ac5b63b3d08742d778a86c15\" shape=\"rect\" target=\"_blank\">investment in Max Space<\/a>, whose expandable habitat technology launches compactly and deploys to up to 20 times its stowed volume at its destination. That architecture \u2013 designed to maximize livable volume, reduce surface deployment costs and support long-duration habitation \u2013 addresses a central infrastructure challenge of sustained lunar presence.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\nCrewed mission execution experience built on the International Space Station, next-generation expandable habitats and commercial station development represent Voyager&#8217;s position that the moon is an operational domain, not a temporary destination. The company unites proven International Space Station mission management heritage and Starlab commercial station development with private astronaut flight execution into one seamless capability to support NASA and future commercial customers to manage complex, crewed, long-duration missions.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\nAbout Voyager Technologies<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\nVoyager Technologies is a defense and space technology company committed to advancing and delivering transformative, mission-critical solutions. By tackling the most complex challenges, Voyager aims to unlock new frontiers for human progress, fortify national security, and protect critical assets from ground to space. 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These forward-looking statements involve many risks and uncertainties, which could cause the Company\u2019s future results to differ materially from those anticipated. Potential risks and uncertainties include, among others, the Company\u2019s ability to sustain and generate growth, ability to generate a sustainable order rate for its products and services and develop new technologies to meet customer needs, general economic conditions and conditions affecting the industries in which the Company operates; the uncertainty of regulatory requirements and approvals; and the ability to obtain necessary financing on acceptable terms or at all. Readers should not place any undue reliance on forward-looking statements since they involve these known and unknown uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond the Company\u2019s control and which could, and likely will, materially affect actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. 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The Company assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise these forward-looking statements for any reason, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;Voyager Technologies (NYSE: VOYG) has signed an order with NASA for the seventh Private Astronaut Mission to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-394536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}