SpaceX and NASA successfully launched manned spaceships

CTOnews.com, October 6 (Xinhua)-- SpaceX and NASA successfully launched a manned spacecraft to the International Space Station in Florida on October 5 local time, carrying Russian astronauts for the first time, according to CCTV news.

Live footage from NASA showed SpaceX using its reusable Falcon 9 booster to launch the Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station at around 12:00 EDT on Wednesday. The spacecraft is expected to arrive at the space station around 5 p.m. Thursday.

The four astronauts include Nicole Mann, the mission commander and the first Native American woman to go into space, American astronaut Josh Kasada, Japanese cosmonaut Wakata Koichi and Russian cosmonaut Anna Zina.

CTOnews.com learned that after entering the International Space Station, astronauts will live in the orbiting laboratory for five months and conduct more than 200 scientific experiments.