Liftoff of a SpaceX spacecraft to the ISS

A new SpaceX flight took off on Wednesday bound for the International Space Station (ISS), for a NASA mission.

The mission, dubbed “Crew-4”, took off from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, with Americans Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins on board, as well as Italian Samantha Cristoforetti, from the Space Agency. European. The new crew will set up and monitor hundreds of experiments in weightlessness, notably on plants or an artificial human retina project.

The four astronauts will join another crew that sees its return to Earth approaching after a five-month mission.

This new SpaceX flight comes after a spacecraft splashed down off Florida with a crew of businessmen on board. The company SpaceX, from the richest man in the world Elon Musk, has become NASA’s taxi to the ISS.