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SpaceX's latest mission to the International Space Station launched successfully on Thursday
The Crew-11 team includes two NASA astronauts, one member of JAXA and one cosmonaut
They will relieve the Crew-10 aboard the ISS and stay for approximately six months
SpaceX 's latest mission to the International Space Station launched successfully this week.
The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off shortly before noon local time on Friday, Aug. 1, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, taking four team members into orbit.
Their six-month stay will mark SpaceX's 11th operational astronaut mission to the ISS under its contract with NASA's Commercial Crew Program, almost five years after its Crew-1 mission in November 2020.
The plan is for the Crew-11 capsule, named Endeavour, to doc