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SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts launch aboard Dragon 'Endurance' to space station [i]The first Native American woman to fly in space and the only woman in Russia's active cosmonaut corps lifted off together for the International Space Station, flying with a first-time NASA pilot and a Japanese engineer who is returning to space for his fifth time. NASA astronaut Nicole Mann, who in addition to being an enrolled member of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes in Northern California is the first woman to command a U.S. commercial spacecraft, launched on Wednesday (Oct. 5) with Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, active U.S. Navy Captain and physicist Josh Cassada and Koichi Wakata of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency). The four members of Crew-5 are now in orbit on the SpaceX Dragon "Endurance," having rode a Falcon 9 rocket from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:00 p.m. EDT (1600 GMT). They are scheduled to arrive at the space station at 4:57 p.m. EDT (2057 GMT) on Thursday.[/i]
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