Beritasenator.com. Four astronauts have blasted off to the International Space Station for a six-month stint in orbit.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Sunday, carrying NASA’s Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps and Russia’s Alexander Grebenkin.
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Footage showed the rocket’s nine Merlin engines roaring as it lifted off from the launch tower.
The astronauts will dock at the orbiting laboratory about 250 miles (420 km) above Earth on Tuesday after a 16-hour flight.
The crew will conduct approximately 250 experiments in the microgravity environment of the orbital platform.
They will replace crew members from the US, Denmark, Japan and Russia who have been there since August.
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When did you get here? space station commander Andreas Mogensen asked via X after a three-day delay due to high winds.
There was nearly another delay Sunday evening after a small crack in the SpaceX capsule’s hatch seal prompted a flurry of last-minute reviews, but it was deemed safe for the entire mission.
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This is the eighth long-duration team NASA has flown on a SpaceX launch vehicle since the private rocket company, founded in 2002 by billionaire Elon Musk, began sending US astronauts into orbit in May 2020.
2024-03-10 07:00:00
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