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The manned spacecraft Crew Dragon of the SpaceX company took off to the International Space Station with four astronauts on board, Reported CNN.
The Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which launches the spacecraft, took off from NASA’s Cape Canaveral Space Range at 7:27 pm Eastern Time.
This flight puts The beginning of a new age in space exploration, when private company ships will launch astronauts into orbit. NASA expects SpaceX spacecraft to maintain a permanent astronaut presence on the International Space Station.
The gang, that took off with Crew Dragon, includes three NASA astronauts – Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walkerlike an astronaut Soichi noguchi from the Japanese space agency JAXA. They are expected to arrive at the International Space Station at 11 p.m. ET Monday. They will spend 27 hours in orbit, slowly maneuvering toward the station.
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