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| Liftoff! SpaceX Crew Dragon launches to Space Station with crew of 4 astronauts | Liftoff! SpaceX Crew Dragon launches to Space Station with crew of 4 astronauts |
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| SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has blasted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, for a 27-hour ride to the International Space Station carrying four astronauts inside the Crew Dragon capsule dubbed Resilience. | SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has blasted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, for a 27-hour ride to the International Space Station carrying four astronauts inside the Crew Dragon capsule dubbed Resilience. |
| The rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 7:27pm ET (0:27GMT on Monday) and was set for a rendezvous with the ISS some 27 hours later. The launch was originally scheduled for Saturday, but had to be postponed due to forecasts of gusty winds. | |
| NASA’s Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, as well as Soichi Noguchi from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), are scheduled to spend six months on board the ISS. | NASA’s Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, as well as Soichi Noguchi from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), are scheduled to spend six months on board the ISS. |
| They will join the existing ISS crew, including Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins. | They will join the existing ISS crew, including Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins. |
| This weekend’s launch has been praised by NASA as historic, signaling both the first time a commercially developed spaceship is being used on a regular ISS mission and the official return of the US capability for launching astronauts into space, lost with the closure of the Space Shuttle program in 2011. | This weekend’s launch has been praised by NASA as historic, signaling both the first time a commercially developed spaceship is being used on a regular ISS mission and the official return of the US capability for launching astronauts into space, lost with the closure of the Space Shuttle program in 2011. |
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