The Dragon spacecraft owned by SpaceX successfully launched with a Falcon-9 rocket, carrying 4 astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).

SpaceX, the space transportation company owned by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, sent 4 astronauts to the ISS as part of the Crew-10 mission.

The Falcon-9 rocket transported the Dragon spacecraft, with astronauts Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Takuya Onishi, and Kirill Peskov, into orbit from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 02:04 (Turkey time).

Approximately 8 minutes after the launch, the Falcon-9 rocket’s reusable first-stage booster successfully landed at the 1st landing zone (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

As part of the Crew-10 mission, the 4 astronauts sent to the ISS are set to replace NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been stranded at the ISS for about 9 months due to a malfunction in the Boeing Starliner spacecraft. During their time on the ISS, they will conduct a series of beneficial scientific research for humanity. The Crew-10 mission, originally scheduled to begin last Thursday, was postponed last minute due to a technical glitch.