Four astronauts from four countries are currently rocketing toward the International Space Station. They are expected to reach the orbiting lab in their SpaceX capsule on Sunday, replacing four astronauts who have lived there since March.
Four astronauts from Denmark, Japan, Russia and the US took off from the Kennedy Space Centre on Saturday making their way to the International Space Station.
The flight marks the first time a US-based launch has filled every seat on a spacecraft with passengers of different nationalities. Until now, NASA had always included two or three of its own on its SpaceX flights. A fluke in timing led to the assignments, officials said.
Moghbeli, a marine pilot serving as commander, is joined on the six-month mission by the European Space Agency’s Andreas Mogensen from Denmark, Japan’s Satoshi Furukawa and Russia’s Konstantin Borisov.
Another NASA astronaut will fly to the station from Kazakhstan in mid-September.
SpaceX has now launched eight crews for NASA. Boeing was hired at the same time nearly a decade ago but has yet to fly astronauts.
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