
‘One heck of a ride!’ SpaceX launches four astronauts to space station
Four astronauts have begun their journey to the International Space Station (ISS) after a historic SpaceX launch.It is NASA's first fully-fledged mission sending a crew into orbit on board a privately-owned spacecraft and the second time that SpaceX's Dragon capsule has taken astronauts to the space station, after a test flight back in May this year. The crew, which is made up of three US NASA astronauts and one Japanese astronaut, lifted-off from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at 7.27pm local time (12.27am GMT), after weather conditions initially put the launch in doubt. Image: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon capsule, lifts off It is also the second time in almost a decade that a manned space flight has lifted off f...