American technology company SpaceX says it plans to launch as many as four private citizens into a higher orbit than ever before. SpaceX is working with U.S.-based Space Adventures Inc. to offer the space flights, the two companies recently announced. No dates or costs for the flights were announced. Space Adventures has already helped send seven space tourists to the International Space Station, or ISS, aboard Russian Soyuz rockets. The SpaceX trips will not send the space tourists to the ISS. Instead, the tourists will be launched to an orbit two to three times higher, about 800 to 1,200 kilometers above Earth. The citizens will be carried by SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, which was developed to transport NASA astronauts.

What does launch mean?
set in motion
reach outer space
sit in a rocket
take off quickly
What is the name of the space craft?
New Frontiers
Crew Dragon
Space Station
Enterprise
The company plans to launch private citizens.
space astronauts
Russian rockets
private citizens
higher orbit