The three American astronauts and an Italian colleague from the European Space Agency will arrive at the International Space Station following a 17-hour flight.
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4 astronauts to the International Space Station
Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company launched 4 more astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Wednesday, including doctor-turned-astronaut and geologist specializing in landslides on Mars.
The launch vehicle, consisting of a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket topped by a Crew Dragon capsule called Freedom, and its four-man crew lifted off at 0752 GMT from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Crew-4 on orbit pic.twitter.com/pNlRTTdSYE
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 27, 2022
If all goes according to plan, the three American astronauts and an Italian colleague from the European Space Agency will arrive at the International Space Station following a 17-hour flight to begin a six-month science mission orbiting regarding 420 kilometers above Earth.
During their 16 hour flight to the @space_stationDragon and the Crew-4 astronauts will orbit the Earth ~10 times pic.twitter.com/bMeApzAhuy
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 27, 2022
This is the fourth mission that NASA has launched to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX vehicle since the private rocket project founded by Musk, who is also the owner of Tesla, began flying with NASA astronauts in 2020.
In all, SpaceX has launched 6 human spaceflights over the past two years.
