Four-astronaut crew welcomed to International Space Station

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A four-astronaut team was welcomed Saturday to the International Space Station. They arrived aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Endeavour, which blasted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in the U.S. state of Florida Friday.

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet of France, NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, and JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide of Japan became the first crew ever to be propelled into orbit by a rocket booster recycled from a previous spaceflight.

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