NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched four more astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station (ISS) late Wednesday, including a veteran spacewalker, a German materials scientist and two younger crewmates chosen to join NASA’s forthcoming lunar missions.
The SpaceX-built launch vehicle, consisting of a Crew Dragon capsule perched atop a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket, climbed into the night sky from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida around 9 p.m.
Armed with cameras, crowds gathered to watch the launch at Space View Park in Titusville, Fla., and were heard marvelling at the sight of the rocket creating a bright fireball as it took off.
The three American astronauts and their European Space Agency crewmate were due to arrive at the space station on Thursday evening following a flight of about 22 hours.
The flight marks the third “operational” space station crew sent to orbit aboard a Dragon capsule since NASA and SpaceX teamed up to resume space launches from American soil last year, following a nine-year hiatus at the end of the U.S. space shuttle program in 2011.
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