NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida shortly after midnight March 2, carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station. The Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to dock with the ISS on Friday.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission crew depart for the launch pad before launch to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., March 1, 2023. From left: Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Warren Hoburg and Stephen Bowen, and United Arab Emirates’ astronaut Sultan Al-Neyadi.

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