SpaceX Rocket Lifts off for Space Station with 4 Astronauts

On Sunday, with four astronauts on board, a SpaceX rocket successfully lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bound for the International Space Station.

This is the second manned flight by SpaceX, a private company founded by entrepreneur Elon Musk, which after nine years of American dependence on Russian Soyuz rockets, will now take NASA astronauts into space, reports AFP.