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Liftoff! NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Begins Journey to International Space Station – Kennedy Space Center [1]

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Date: 2024-03-03

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, lit up Florida’s night sky, as NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, commander; Michael Barratt, pilot; and mission specialist Jeanette Epps, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut mission specialist Alexander Grebenkin, started their approximately 28-hour journey to the International Space Station on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission. Liftoff occurred at 10:53 p.m. EST.

At the time of launch, the space station is flying 260 statute miles over the southern Arabian Sea, southwest of India.

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[1] Url: https://blogs.nasa.gov/kennedy/2024/03/03/liftoff-nasas-spacex-crew-8-begins-journey-to-international-space-station/

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