The SpaceX spacecraft, Elon Musk’s company, took off early Wednesday, April 27, on a NASA mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Thanks to a favorable weather window, the spacecraft for the mission dubbed “Crew-4” took off from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 3:52 a.m. (9:52 a.m. in Paris) with Americans Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins on board. , as well as Italian Samantha Cristoforetti, of the European Space Agency. The shooting was broadcast live on the NASA website.
SpaceX carried out this launch less than forty hours after another crew was captured. The flight schedule has accelerated since Elon Musk became a NASA taxi to the International Space Station.
The four Crew-4 astronauts will join another crew there that sees their return to Earth approaching after a five-month mission, and when they will return soon. The new crew will prepare and monitor hundreds of experiments in weightlessness, particularly on plants, as well as the Artificial Human Retinal Project.
Jessica Watkins is the fifth black woman to go into space and the first woman to join the space station on an extended mission. She and her three colleagues are expected to arrive at the International Space Station about seventeen hours after liftoff, with a docking time scheduled for 2:15 a.m. (Paris time) on Thursday.
