An international crew of four astronauts launched toward the International Space Station from Florida yesterday aboard a SpaceX rocket, beating gloomy weather to embark on a routine Nasa mission that could be the first of many to last a couple months longer than usual.
The four-person astronaut crew - two Nasa astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and Japanese astronaut – boarded SpaceX’s Dragon capsule sitting atop its Falcon 9 rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre and blasted off at 11.43am ET (1543 GMT).
They will arrive at the ISS today.
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