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SpaceX launches a Dragon capsule for a NASA mission to the International Space Station, carrying Americans Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins, as well as Italian Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency. IMAGES
A SpaceX rocket carried four astronauts toward orbit Wednesday night, including the 600th person to reach space in 60 years.
A SpaceX rocket successfully lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida with four astronauts on board, bound for the International Space Station. It is the second manned flight by SpaceX, a private firm founded by entrepreneur Elon Musk that will now carry NASA astronauts into space after nine years of American dependence on Russian Soyuz rockets. IMAGES
NASA and SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft blasts off to the International Space Station, carrying four astronauts. The Crew-7 mission is commanded by American Jasmin Moghbeli and includes Andreas Mogensen of Denmark, Satoshi Furukawa of Japan and Konstantin Borisov of Russia. They will spend 6 months on the station conducting a variety of experiments.
Elon Musk’s rocket venture SpaceX has just sent a capsule to the ISS, with a Russian cosmonaut sharing the ride with two Americans and a Japanese.