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SpaceX launching Saudi astronauts on private flight to space station

By Associated Press
Published May 21, 2023 8:34pm ET
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SpaceX launching Saudi astronauts on private flight to space station
SpaceX chief engineer Elon Musk, second from left, talks to the media with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, and NASA astronauts crew Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, right, in front of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, about the progress to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station, from American soil, as part of the agency’s commercial crew program at SpaceX headquarters, in Hawthorne, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX’s next private flight to the International Space Station awaited takeoff Sunday, weather and rocket permitting.

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