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SpaceX, NASA set for first operational astronaut mission to space – Aljazeera.com
NASA calls flight its first ‘operational’ mission for a rocket and crew-vehicle system that was 10 years in the making.
SpaceX, the rocket company of high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, was due on Sunday to launch four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station, NASAs first full-fledged mission sending a crew into orbit aboard a privately owned spacecraft.
The companys newly designed Crew Dragon capsule, which the crew has dubbed Resilience, was set for liftoff atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 7:27pm Eastern time (00:27 GMT on Monday) from NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida in the…
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