SpaceX launches NASA’s Crew-4 mission to ISS

• Elon Musk’s company has sent 26 astronauts into space in two years

Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched a crew of four astronauts into orbit as part of a NASA mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

The Crew-4 mission, is SpaceX’s seventh human spaceflight to date and fourth operational crew launch for NASA. The crew reached the orbit after launching from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:52 AM ET, wrote NASA in its press statement.

The crew was onboard a Dragon spacecraft propelled by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The diverse crew comprised of Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, and Jessica Watkins, all NASA astronauts, and Samantha Cristoforetti of European Space Agency (ESA).