Four astronauts successfully took off in NASA and SpaceX's historic first commercial flight to the Interational Space Station Sunday night. By 7.30pm stage separation was confirmed meaning the Crew Dragon separated from Falcon 9 rocket and was headed towards the space station. This mark’s NASA’s first operational flight for SpaceX’s Crew Dragon as NASA will allow commercial rockets to take astronauts to and fro from the international space station instead of government-operated spacecrafts. and rookie astronaut Victor Glover, who will be the first black astronaut to spend an extended amount of time on the space station. NASA turned to private companies to haul cargo and crews to the space station, following the 2011 retirement of its space shuttles.

Source: Daily Mail November 15, 2020 22:21 UTC