BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan -- French astronaut Claudie Haignere will lift off for the International Space Station on Sunday accompanied by two Russian cosmonauts and her own personal mascot -- a teddy bear.

Axiom Space and Build-A-Bear Workshop are continuing their partnership and will send a furry fifth crew member to space, alongside the Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) astronauts.

A photo of GiGi, the teddy bear, at the Axiom Space suit lab. GiGi is set to go to space alongside other astronauts Jan. 17 as part of Ax-3.

There actually are five crew members - the fifth is a small furry teddy bear from Build-A-Bear Workshop named GiGi. She is wearing a smaller version of the same spacesuit that the Ax-2 astronauts ...

According to the space agency, the 19-mile-long lake straddling the Utah-Idaho border “caught the eye” of an astronaut on the International Space Station on Sept. 6, and one of the photos ...