SpaceX Launches New Crew to Space Station After Delay

Elon Musk’s company blasted off the rocket early Thursday after resolving a technical issue that postponed a flight Monday

SpaceX and NASA blasted four astronauts into space from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Thursday. This came three days after the agencies called off a launch attempt due to a technical issue. Photo: Chandan Khanna/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

SpaceX launched a crew to the International Space Station early Thursday, a makeup flight for a mission that the company and NASA scrubbed earlier this week due to a technical issue.

The delay was a rare hiccup in SpaceX’s work handling high-profile human spaceflights for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Elon Musk-led rocket company has now conducted seven of those missions for NASA since 2020, when it blasted off the first astronauts from the U.S. in close to a decade.

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