FLORIDA – The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and SpaceX launched a new four-astronaut team on a flight to the International Space Station on Friday.
The Crew Dragon capsule, Endeavour, streaked into the darkened pre-dawn sky atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as its nine Merlin engines roared to life at 5:49 a.m. from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral here.
The crew is due to arrive at the space station, which orbits some 250 miles above Earth, today following a flight of about 23 hours.
Friday’s Crew 2 team consists of two NASA astronauts – mission commander Shane Kimbrough and pilot Megan McArthur – along with Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and fellow mission specialist Thomas Pesquet, a French engineer from the European Space Agency. (Reuters)
