An-Najah News - Agencies - The private space company SpaceX, run by the entrepreneur Elon Musk, has successfully launched the first spacecraft carrying astronauts, on a mission by NASA to send astronauts to the International Space Station, the first time that CessX has sent a spacecraft carrying humans to Space, and it is also the first flight that astronauts have launched from American soil in nearly a decade.

The space rocket succeeded in launching the spacecraft into its orbit within about 12 minutes

The astronauts boarded NASA's Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley the new spacecraft from SpaceX, which they call Crew Dragon, a spacecraft or capsule designed to transport people to and from the International Space Station, carrying the spacecraft the space giant Falcon 9 from SpaceX from The Kennedy Space Center of NASA, Florida, the rocket succeeded in launching the spacecraft into its orbit within about 12 minutes. Then the rocket successfully returned to Earth at a designated landing base, and astronauts will need about 19 hours to dock with the International Space Station.

This successful launch of this rocket marks a milestone for SpaceX, which was founded by Elon Musk with the goal of sending humans into space, and the launch is a spoofing test for SpaceX as part of its agreement with NASA to regularly transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station, and yesterday’s mission is the company's last test flight. SpaceX to determine the ability of its Crew Dragon spacecraft to send NASA astronauts to the International Space Station in the coming years.