Here are a few scintillating snaps by reuterspictures as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is launched with a crew of four astronauts to begin a six-month expedition on the ISS. Read more here
Rendezvous of the Crew Dragon capsule with the station less than 16 hours after launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, marked one of the fastest flights by Elon Musk's SpaceX to the ISS from liftoff to docking, NASA webcast commentators said.
A live NASA video feed showed the smiling new arrivals floating headfirst through the padded passageway one by one into the station. They were greeted with hugs and handshakes by the four-member team they will be replacing - three Americans and a German ESA crewmate due to end their mission next week.
The brief interval between Axiom's splashdown and the Crew 4 launch vividly demonstrated a swift turnaround capability forged by NASA and SpaceX, at least when weather conditions permit, built around a fleet of reusable rockets and crew capsules. The designated pilot for mission was Hines, a rookie astronaut and U.S Air Force fighter pilot who has accumulated more than 3,500 hours of flight time in 50 types of aircraft and had flown 76 combat missions.
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