Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX launches four-man crew to orbit en route to the International Space Station for NASA
The trip to the International Space Station , a laboratory orbiting about 250 miles above Earth, was expected to take nearly 25 hours, with rendezvous planned for about 1:15 a.m. EST on Friday.
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. The Crew 6 mission also was notable for its inclusion of UAE astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, 41, only the second person from his country to fly to space and the first to launch from US soil as part of a long-duration space station team.
Fedyaev is the second cosmonaut to fly aboard an American spacecraft under a renewed ride-sharing deal signed in July by NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos, despite heightened tensions between Washington and Moscow over Russia's offensive on Ukraine.
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