SpaceX has successfully launched its Dragon spacecraft with four crew members onboard from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The international crew includes the Nasa astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, the European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and the Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov. The launch of Crew-7, as the mission is called, was originally scheduled for Thursday but was halted by Nasa and SpaceX to deal with lingering issues, according to officials. The spacecraft is due to reach the International Space Station on Sunday
Four astronauts from four countries take off to International Space Station
About Author
More Stories
Starwatch: Tracking Virgo across the spring sky
Weight-loss jabs could halve risk of obesity-related cancers, study finds
$101m longevity research prize aims to ‘shatter the limits’ on ageing