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
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