SpaceX launched a group of astronauts for NASA early Wednesday morning, with Elon Musk’s company now having sent 26 people to orbit in less than two years.
SpaceX launched a group of astronauts for NASA early Wednesday morning, with Elon Musk’s company now having sent 26 people to orbit in less than two years. The Crew-4 mission, the company’s seventh human spaceflight to date and fourth operational crew launch for NASA, reached orbit after launching from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:52 a.m. ET. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried the four astronauts to space in the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft named Freedom. „The SpaceX team executed beautifully,“ Kathy Lueders, NASA associate administrator, said at a news conference after the launch. SpaceX’s capsule — carrying NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins and Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti — is on its way to the International Space Station.
