SpaceX rocket launched in Florida will take space tourists to the ISS
In Florida, the Falcon 9 launch vehicle of the American company SpaceX launched with the manned Dragon spacecraft.
The rocket launched from the Cape Canaveral cosmodrome at 16:49 on the East Coast of the United States. It is supposed to deliver the Ax-3 mission to the International Space Station.
The crew includes Italian pilot Walter Villadey, astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA), Swedish citizen Markus Vandt, as well as the first Turkish cosmonaut — military pilot Alper Gezeravci.
The crew is led by a former NASA astronaut, an employee of the private company Axiom Space, which organizes the flight, Michael Lopez-Alegria.
Space tourists will remain in orbit for about two weeks, during which they will take part in the scientific work of the station.
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