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Crew members of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket commander Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, gesture as they depart for the launch pad for the first operational NASA commercial crew mission at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. [Joe Skipper/Reuters]
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Crew Dragon capsule, is launched carrying four astronauts on the first operational NASA commercial crew mission at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. [Thom Baur/Reuters]
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Elon Musk At the Vehicle Assembly Building after the first manned launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. [Michael Tracy/Al Jazeera]
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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch of Starlink 9, which is one of a series of Starlink missions to provide fast internet speed to remote populations. [Michael Tracy/Al Jazeera]
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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket of Starlink 7 as it approaches cloud cover over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. [Michael Tracy/Al Jazeera]
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