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A SpaceX capsule carrying astronauts from the US, Japan and Russia launched for the International Space Station on Friday, which is a six -month migration in the orbit for NASA.
A Falcon 9 rocket topped the crew’s dragon capsules, which came out from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:44 pm, taking NASA astronaut Zenna Cardman and Mike Finke, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kimia UE and Rosomosmos Cosmonot Oleg Platonov.
Elon Musk -led Spacex originally attempted to launch the mission on Thursday, but stopped the countdown of about a minute before the liftoff citing adverse weather conditions.
The crew is riding on the Spacex’s crew Dragon Endeavor, flying for the sixth time since its start in 2020. Originally, NASA had certified the crew dragon spacecraft to fly five times, but the agency is working to expand that certification to reach 15 flights.
“We have had to go through a recurrence of Dragon Working Hand with SpaceX for six flights,” said Steve Stitch, a program manager of NASA’s commercial crew program last month.
Prior to the launch on Thursday, Dimitri Baknov, head of Russia’s Rososmos Space Agency, met NASA’s acting administrator, Transport Secretary at Kennedy Space Center with Sean Dafi, which discussed continuous cooperation and cooperation in space, a NASA spokesman told Bloomberg News.
According to a statement by Rososmos, Baknov arrived in the US on Tuesday to interact with Dafi and visit SpaceX facilities. The meeting first marked two heads of NASA and Rososmos, met personally since 2018, and this was the first meeting between Dafi and Baknov.
Cho -11 is called a Friday’s visit to NASA’s commercial crew program marks the 12th trip to SpaceX with astronauts, including a test flight and 11 full -term missions.
The crew has been slated to do a dock with the international space station around New York time at 3 pm on Saturday.
The launch was launched after a public place between Musk and US President Donald Trump, during which Musk threatened to reduce the dragon spacecraft, but later returned to the danger.
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