SpaceX Launches Four Astronauts To International Space Station In Historically Diverse Long-Term MissionSpaceX successfully launched four astronauts towards the International Space Station early Wednesday in a mission that features one of the
most diverse crews sent to space.The launch of the Crew-4 mission took place from
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Cape Canaveral, Florida, and it consisted of a partially reused Falcon 9 two-stage rocket which propelled the crew onboard
SpaceX’s Dragon capsule named Freedom.
Minutes after the launch, the crewed capsule managed to successfully enter orbit while the first stage booster of the
Falcon 9 rocket returned back to Earth and landed on board SpaceX’s drone-ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
The crew of four is made up of
two men — NASA’s Kjell N. Lindgren and Robert Hines — and
two women — NASA’s Jessica Watkins and Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti from the European Space Agency.
