NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts lifted off at 3:52 a.m. EDT Wednesday, April 27, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bound for the International Space Station for the fourth NASA and SpaceX commercial crew rotation mission aboard the microgravity laboratory. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled the Crew Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines, and Jessica Watkins, along with ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, into orbit to begin a six-month science mission on the space station. The Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Freedom, will dock autonomously to the forward port of the station’s Harmony module around 8:15 p.m. EDT.
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