Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Wednesday evening launched four civilians toward the deepest orbit Americans have traveled to in more than a decade in another milestone flight for private space travel.
A Falcon 9 rocket with a Crew Dragon space capsule on top lifted off with a fiery plume from a pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida just after 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, according to a live stream of the takeoff.
