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SpaceX Dragon with 4 astronauts reaches orbit milestone

&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;SpaceX promoted by Elon Musk confirmed that four astronauts reached orbit on SpaceX Falcon rocket from Florida, in the company&rsquo;s first regular National Aeronautical and Space Administration&rsquo;s (Nasa) mission to the International Space Station.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;The Crew Dragon lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket at 7.27 p.m. EST.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;The spacecraft carrying Nasa astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, along with Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has safely reached orbit, NASA said.&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&rdquo;This is a great day for the United States of America, and a great day for Japan, and we look forward to many more years of a great partnership… All the way to the Moon,&quot; Nasa Administrator Jim Bridenstine said on the launch of the mission.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;Crew-1 is the first crew rotation flight of a US commercial spacecraft with astronauts to the space station following the spacecraft system&#039;s official human rating certification.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;The four astronauts will spend six months at the space station for their research.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;The Crew Dragon is scheduled to dock to the space station at about 11 p.m. today, Nasa said.&lt;/p&gt;.

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