SpaceX ship lifts off with U.S., Japanese astronauts aboard

A SpaceX ship lifted off Sunday bound for the International Space Station with U.S. and Japanese astronauts aboard, another step in NASA's effort to make the commercially developed craft a viable option to regularly ferry humans to the orbiting laboratory.The Crew Dragon space capsule, developed by U.S. aerospace manufacturer SpaceX, was launched on a Falcon 9 rocket at 7:27 p.m. from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will be the Crew Dragon's second manned flight to the ISS and the first with a Japanese astronaut -- Soichi Noguchi, 55."This is a great day for the United S…READ FULL ARTICLE