SpaceX launches new International Space Station crew

The Crew-7 mission is commanded by American Jasmin Moghbeli and includes Andreas Mogensen of Denmark, Satoshi Furukawa of Japan and Konstantin Borisov of Russia.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft with astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station lifts off from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. / Photo: AP

They should reach the orbiting lab in their SpaceX capsule Sunday, replacing four astronauts living up there since March. It was the first US launch where every spacecraft seat was occupied by a different country. NASA had always included two or three of its own on its SpaceX taxi flights. A fluke in timing led to the assignments, officials said.

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