A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket thunders away from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, boosting four astronauts toward space and a planned six-month stay aboard the International Space Station. ET, climbing away atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket using a previously flown first stage.Īrcing over on a northeasterly trajectory paralleling the East Coast, the booster put on a spectacular show, knifing through low clouds and lighting them from above as it quickly climbed away on 1.7 million pounds of thrust. Strapped into the Crew Dragon "Endurance," commander Raja Chari, co-pilot Thomas Marshburn, Kayla Barron and European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer blasted off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 9:03 p.m.
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