KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon spacecraft blasted off from Kennedy Space Center Sunday night sending an international crew of astronauts on their journey to the space station, marking the private company’s second astronaut mission for NASA.The Falcon 9 rocket launched at 7:27 p.m.
from Launchpad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.In the hours leading up to launch, NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, along with Japanese Space Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi had a busy day from donning their spacesuits to saying goodbye to their families.In the image below Glover says goodbye to his four children and his wife.