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These images show the takeoff of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft atop a 65-meter-tall Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A in Florida, transporting four astronauts on an expedition to the International Space Station.
The Falcon 9 rocket took off from Pad 39A at 19:27:17 EST on November 15 (0027:17 GMT on November 16) with NASA commander Mike Hopkins, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Shannon Walker and the Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi.
The Falcon 9 launcher darted across an evening sky, targeting the International Space Station as it flew northeast from the Florida Space Coast powered by nine Merlin 1D engines generating 1.7 million pounds of ground-shaking thrust.
The mission, known as Crew-1, marked the crew’s first operational rotation flight to the space station with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket.
After a 27 1/2 hour chase, the Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft docked autonomously at the space station at 11:01 PM EST on November 16 (0401 GMT on November 17). A few hours later, Hopkins and his crewmates entered the space station to join three crew members who were already living aboard the orbiting research lab.
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