KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – Following the tradition of bringing a “gravity indicator” on their spaceflight to the International Space Station, the Crew-1 astronauts selected Baby Yoda for their journey in the SpaceX Dragon capsule.The second group of astronauts to launch from Kennedy Space Center since 2011, NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, along with Japanese Space Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi were in route Sunday night to the orbiting laboratory 200 miles above Earth.
The four astronauts launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in the Crew Dragon capsule called Resilience from Kennedy Space Center in Florida Sunday evening.It will take about 27 hours for Resilience to reach the ISS, in the meantime the astronauts.