SpaceX and NASA launch a rocket with a crew of four on a long-range space mission | innovation

SpaceX rocket with Three American astronauts and a Russian astronaut The spacecraft launched from Florida, United States, heading to the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday (4).

This is the eighth space mission promoted by the technology company founded by Elon Musk in partnership with NASA. The scientific trip takes six months.

A video clip published by NASA on the X website (formerly Twitter) shows the moment of launch of the rocket, which is 25 stories high and has nine engines. (Watch above).

The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket, topped with an autonomously operating capsule, was launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral along Florida's Atlantic coast at 12:53 a.m. EDT.

Previously, the take-off was scheduled to take place in the early hours of Sunday (3), but it ended up being postponed due to “strong winds.”

On board the mission are Commander Matthew Dominick – a US Navy test pilot making his first flight into space – and veteran NASA astronaut Michael Barratt, a physician who has logged two previous flights to the space station and two spacewalks.

The team includes NASA astronaut Janet Epps, an aeronautical engineer and former CIA technical intelligence officer, and astronaut Alexander Grebenkin, a former military aeronautical engineer.

The crew is expected to remain on board the space station until the end of August, to collectively conduct tours 250 experiments in microgravity From the orbital platform.