SpaceX Launches First Full Team of Astronauts to Space

New Delhi: Four astronauts – three from the US and one from Japan – took off from Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX rocket on early Monday morning and are headed for the International Space Station. The crew is riding a rocket and capsule provided by the SpaceX company and this is the first fully operational mission for a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, reported CNN. Also Read – Elon Musk Calls COVID-19 Test ‘Bogus’ After Receiving Positive and Negative Results on Same Day, Gets Slammed by Netizens

This launch marks SpaceX’s second astronaut launch overall. The first Crew Dragon to launch humans, which was still considered a test mission, took off in May. Also Read – NASA Gets Nod To Bring Mars Rock Samples Back to Earth For Scientific Study

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Liftoff! pic.twitter.com/Unf1ScdVFB

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