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the "dragon" spacecraft of the american space exploration technology company was launched from florida, usa, on september 28, local time, carrying american and russian astronauts to the international space station.

nasa's live broadcast shows that the "dragon" spacecraft boarded a "falcon 9" rocket at 13:17 eastern time on the 28th (1:17 beijing time on the 29th) from the cape canaveral space force base in florida. launched into space. subsequently, the spacecraft separated from the rocket and continued to fly to the international space station. the first stage of the rocket successfully landed and recovered at the launch site. according to the plan, the spacecraft will dock with the international space station at 17:30 eastern time on the 29th (5:30 beijing time on the 30th).

this space mission, codenamed "crew-9", is the ninth time that the manned dragon spacecraft has transported rotating astronauts to the international space station. the two astronauts riding the dragon spacecraft to the space station are american astronaut nick hague and russian cosmonaut alexander gorbunov. according to nasa, the two astronauts will conduct more than 200 scientific experiments and technology demonstrations on the space station, including research on blood coagulation, the impact of humidity on the growth of plants in the space environment, and changes in astronauts' vision.

according to plan, the "dragon" spacecraft will return to earth in february next year. in addition to carrying the two astronauts on this mission,it will also bring back two american astronauts who were stranded on the space station due to a failure of the american boeing company's "starliner" spacecraft.。

the dragon spacecraft is the first manned spacecraft built by a private company in the united states to transport astronauts to and from the space station. it is also the first manned spacecraft since the u.s. space shuttle to be certified by nasa to regularly transport astronauts to and from the space station. (headquarters reporter zhang yingzhe)