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SpaceX Launches First All-European Commercial Crew to ISS
- Europe looking for ‘much better’ 2024 after series of setbacks
- Mission is Axiom’s third crewed mission into low-Earth orbit
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A SpaceX rocket blasted off Thursday carrying the first all-European commercial crew to the International Space Station, a landmark mission for a region looking to mount a comeback following a series of setbacks.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket topped with its Crew Dragon capsule lifted off at 4:49 p.m. local time from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, according to a webcast of the mission managed by SpaceX and Axiom Space Inc.