An international crew of
four astronauts launched toward the International Space Station
from Florida on Friday aboard a SpaceX rocket, beating gloomy
weather to embark on a routine NASA mission that could be the
first of many to last a couple months longer than usual.
The four-person astronaut crew – two NASA astronauts, a
Russian cosmonaut and Japanese astronaut – boarded SpaceX’s
Dragon capsule sitting atop its Falcon 9 rocket at NASA’s
Kennedy Space Center and blasted off at 11:43 am ET (1543 GMT).
SpaceX launches joint astronaut crew
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