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Axiom-3 launches on SpaceX to ISS with first all-European citizen crew [i]The first spaceflight to be crewed entirely by European citizens is now on its way to the International Space Station having launched on a private mission aboard a U.S. commercial spacecraft. Michael Lopez-Alegria, a former NASA astronaut who holds dual citizenship in the U.S. and Spain, lifted off as the commander of Axiom Space's Axiom-3 (Ax-3) crew on Wednesday (Jan. 17), flying on SpaceX's Crew Dragon "Freedom" with pilot Walter Villadei of Italy and mission specialists Alper Gezeravci of Türkiye and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Marcus Wandt of Sweden. The four crewmates left Earth on a Falcon 9 rocket from Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 4:49 p.m. EST (1949 GMT). They are set to dock to the space station at 5:15 a.m. EST (1015 GMT) on Saturday to begin two weeks of science research, technology demonstrations and educational outreach.[/i]
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