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Four astronauts representing four nations and space agencies across the globe launched aboard a SpaceX rocket toward the International Space Station, kicking off a mission expected to last more than six months. They should reach the orbiting lab in their SpaceX capsule Sunday, replacing four astronauts living up there since March

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00:00 Four astronauts representing four nations and space agencies across the globe launched
00:16 aboard a SpaceX rocket towards the International Space Station, kicking off a mission expected
00:22 to last more than six months.
00:24 They should reach the orbiting lab in the SpaceX capsule Sunday, replacing four astronauts
00:29 living up there since March.
00:32 The crew is riding aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance Capsule on the mission, dubbed
00:37 Crew 7.
00:38 The spacecraft launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center
00:44 in Florida at 3.27 a.m. ET Saturday.
00:48 The four astronauts on the mission include NASA's Jasmin Moghbelly, who is serving as
00:53 mission commander; Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen, representing the European Space
00:58 Agency; Satoshi Furukawa of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Russian cosmonaut
01:05 Konstantin Borisov of Roscosmos.
01:08 Moghbelly said her crew's makeup demonstrates what we can do when we work together in harmony.
01:15 This was the first U.S. launch where every spacecraft seat was occupied by a different
01:19 country until now.
01:21 NASA had always included two or three of its own on its SpaceX taxi flights.
01:26 A fluke in timing led to the assignment, officials said.
01:30 After reaching orbit, the Crew Dragon capsule detached from the Falcon 9 rocket, beginning
01:34 its solo trek through orbit.
01:36 The spacecraft will spend more than 24 hours carefully maneuvering towards the space station,
01:41 which orbits about 220 nautical miles above Earth's surface.
01:46 The crew is expected to dock at the space station around 8.39 a.m. on Sunday.
01:51 The Crew 7 astronauts will spend about five days taking over operations from the SpaceX
01:56 Crew 6 astronauts, who have been on the space station since March.
02:01 This mission marks the eighth flight operated by NASA and SpaceX as part of the agency's
02:05 Commercial Crew program, which has been ferrying astronauts to the space station since SpaceX's
02:11 first crewed mission in 2020.
02:13 The Crew 7 astronauts represent the most internationally diverse SpaceX crew to date.
02:18 During their stay on the space station, which is expected to last about 190 days, the Crew
02:23 7 astronauts will pore through a slate of experiments.
02:26 The research will include investigating the potential risk of dispersion of bacteria and
02:29 fungi from human-led space missions.
02:32 The team will analyze whether the microorganisms can be expelled from the space station's vents
02:36 and spewed into the vacuum of space.
02:40 Another project from the ESA will investigate how sleeping in the microgravity environment
02:44 differs from Earth by analyzing astronauts' brain waves while they doze off.
02:48 Yet another experiment will look at the formation of biofilms in wastewater on the space station,
02:53 which could be key to finding better ways to recycle water for drinking and hygiene
02:57 while in space.
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