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A fighter pilot poised to become Turkey's first person in orbit and three other astronauts representing Europe were set for launch on Thursday headed for the International Space Station in the latest commercially arranged mission from Texas startup Axiom Space. A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying the Axiom quartet was due for liftoff atop a Falcon 9 rocket at 4:49 p.m. EST (2149 GMT) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, beginning a planned 36-hour voyage to the orbiting laboratory. The mission marks the third such flight organized by Houston-based Axiom over the past two years as the company builds on its business of putting astronauts sponsored by foreign governments and private enterprise into Earth orbit.
SpaceX is set for the first human spaceflight of the year from the Space Coast with an afternoon launch of a four-man crew on a private mission to the International Space Station.
Turkey s
first astronaut and three other crew members representing Europe
were launched from Florida on Thursday on a voyage to the
International Space Station in the latest commercially. -January 18, 2024 at 04:49 pm EST
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