SpaceX rocketship launches 4 astronauts on NASA mission to space station
By Steve Gorman
(Reuters) -NASA and Elon Musk’s industrial rocket agency SpaceX launched a model new four-astronaut workers on a flight to the International Space Station on Friday, the first crew ever propelled into orbit by a rocket booster recycled from a earlier spaceflight.
The agency’s Crew Dragon capsule (*4*), moreover making its second flight, streaked into the darkened pre-dawn sky atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as its 9 Merlin engines roared to life at 5:49 a.m. (0949 GMT) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The blastoff on Cape Canaveral was aired keep on NASA TV.
The crew is due to arrive on the space station, orbiting some 250 miles (400 km) above Earth, early on Saturday following a flight of about 23 hours. On the way in which during which they will have time to …