NASA and SpaceX launch the delayed Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station
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Photo by Joel Kowsky/NASA via Getty Images NASA has successfully launched four astronauts on a journey to the International Space Station (ISS). The Crew-6 astronauts launched in a SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle carried by a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:34AM ET on Thursday, March 2nd.
The crew will travel throughout the day and arrive at the ISS at around 1AM ET on Friday, where they will join the four members of Crew-5 plus three more crew members, for a total of 11 people on board the station. This won't last for long, however, as the Crew-5 astronauts are scheduled to return to Earth in another Crew Dragon in a few days' time.
Congratulations to the NASA and SpaceX teams for another history-making mission to the...