CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX launched a four-man crew to orbit en route to the International Space Station early on Thursday (March 2), with a Russian cosmonaut and United Arab Emirates astronaut joining two Nasa crewmates for the flight. The SpaceX launch vehicle, consisting of a Falcon 9 rocket topped with an autonomously operated Crew Dragon...
Nasa's SpaceX Crew-6 mission, that includes Nasa astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, the United Arab Emirates Sultan Al-Neyadi and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, launches to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, on March 2, 2023.
The flight came 72 hours after an initial launch attempt was scrubbed in the final minutes of countdown early on Monday due to a blockage in the flow of engine-ignition fluid. Nasa said the problem was fixed by replacing a clogged filter and purging the system. The crew's commander, Nasa astronaut Stephen Bowen, radioed back, "We'd like to thank you for the great ride to orbit today."
Designated Crew 6, the mission marks the sixth long-term ISS team that Nasa has flown aboard SpaceX since the private rocket venture founded by Musk - billionaire CEO of electric car maker Tesla and social media platform Twitter - began sending American astronauts to orbit in May 2020.
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