Florida. Billionaire Elon Musk’s company SpaceX sent its Falcon 9 rocket into space from the Cape Canaveral launch pad in Florida. The rocket that carried the Dragon spacecraft into space has two crew members, NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian astronaut Alexander Gorbunov.
Indian-origin astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, stranded on the International Space Station since June 5, will be brought back to Earth through the Dragon spacecraft. In this four-seater rocket, two seats have been left vacant. New launch pad used for Falcon 9. Which was the first use of this pad for a crewmember mission.