At 15:52 on April 27th, Beijing time, at the 36A launch pad in Cape Cao, Florida, a SpaceX “four-handed” Falcon 9 rocket lifted four astronauts and the “Liberty” Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station . The Falcon 9 rocket used this time is numbered B1067-4, an old rocket that has been launched four times. About nine minutes after launch, the rocket successfully returned to land on a marine recovery ship in the Atlantic Ocean, becoming a “five-handed rocket”. The four astronauts on the Crew4 mission include three NASA astronauts and an Italian female astronaut: Commander Shel Lindgren (second flight), pilot Robert Hines (first flight), mission specialist Thurmantha Christopheretti (second flight), mission specialist Jessica Watkins (first flight). Dr. Shel Lindgren, a certified emergency physician and former flight surgeon, is on his second trip to the International Space Station, 2 .
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