SpaceX launches Crew-5 astronauts on historic flight to space station for NASA

SpaceX's groundbreaking Crew-5 mission is on its way to the International Space Station (ISS). A Dragon capsule carrying the four Crew-5 astronauts lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from historic Launch Pad 39A here at NASA's Kennedy Space Center today (Oct. 5) at noon EDT (1600 GMT), kicking off a roughly 29-hour journey to the orbiting lab. Those four spaceflyers are NASA's Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata and cosmonaut Anna Kikina. More

(Source: Space.com - Oct 5)