This was reported by Reuters, Ukrinform reports.

SpaceX’s Endeavor, consisting of a Falcon 9 rocket with an autonomous Crew Dragon capsule, took off at 12:34 ET (05:34 GMT) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The launch of the 25-story spacecraft was demonstrated in a live NASA webcast.

The flight came 72 hours after the first launch attempt was aborted in the final minutes of the Monday morning countdown due to a blockage in the flow of the engine’s ignition fluid.

According to NASA, the problem was solved by replacing the clogged filter and cleaning the system.

About nine minutes after Thursday’s launch, the rocket’s upper stage sent Crew Dragon to its previous orbit as it flew through space at 20 times the speed of sound.

Meanwhile, the Falcon’s reusable lower stage booster has returned to Earth and has landed safely on a crash ship floating in the Atlantic.

The journey to the ISS laboratory, which orbits about 250 miles (420 kilometers) above Earth, will take approximately 25 hours, and the rendezvous is scheduled for 1:15 a.m. ET (06:15 GMT) Friday.

The crew’s six-month science mission will include nearly 200 experiments and technology demonstrations, from studying the growth of human cells in space to controlling flammable materials in microgravity.

The Crew 6 mission is NASA’s sixth long-duration ISS crew to fly aboard SpaceX since Elon Musk’s private rocket company began sending American astronauts into orbit in May 2020.

As reported by Ukrinform, on Monday morning NASA and SpaceX delayed the launch of the capsule with two American astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a crew member from the United Arab Emirates minutes before the scheduled takeoff from Florida to the International Space Station (ISS). ).

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