The new Falcon 9 booster will also join SpaceX’s fleet with a Saturday launch.

SpaceX launched the Dragon spacecraft into orbit from Florida’s Space Coast on Saturday morning, carrying a multinational crew from the United States, Denmark, Japan and Russia on a flight to the National Space Station economic.

The four crew members took their seats inside SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft overnight, then waited for the Falcon 9 rocket to lift them into orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. With an orange flash, the rocket’s nine kerosene-powered Merlin engines ignited and ejected the Falcon 9 from the launch pad at 3 a.m.:
11:00pm EDT (07:00
27 UTC).

The rocket headed northeast from the Florida coast to cross the Atlantic Ocean and align with the International Space Station’s flight path. About two and a half minutes after launch, Falcon 9’s first thruster separated from the rocket’s upper stage to begin its return to Cape Canaveral. The return maneuver resulted in a vertical landing on the target a few miles south of the launch pad.

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