NASA and billionaire businessman Elon Musk’s private rocket company SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) late Sunday.<\/p>\n
The launch, originally scheduled for Saturday, took place at 7:27 p.m. ET at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in the US state of Florida. The flight, called Crew-1, is SpaceX’s first operational mission of its Crew Dragon spacecraft. The Crew Dragon took off on top of Space X\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket.<\/p>\n
The crew includes NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi.<\/p>\n
They are expected to dock with the ISS on Monday night after a 27-hour trip.<\/p>\n
SpaceX’s first Crew Dragon carried two NASA astronauts — Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley — to the ISS in May. The launch was the first crewed mission from the US since the last space shuttle flight in 2011.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump hailed the liftoff and said NASA had improved with his administration.<\/p>\n
“A great launch! @NASA was a closed up disaster when we took over. Now it is again the \u2018hottest,\u2019 most advanced space center in the world, by far!” Trump tweeted.<\/p>\n
President-elect Joe Biden congratulated both NASA and SpaceX for the launch and wished the crew well.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s a testament to the power of science and what we can accomplish by harnessing our innovation, ingenuity, and determination. I join all Americans and the people of Japan in wishing the astronauts Godspeed on their journey,” Biden said on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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