Next SpaceX liftoff with Japan astronaut aboard possibly on April 20

NASA said Friday that it is targeting April 20 at the earliest for another launch of a SpaceX ship that will this time carry Japan's Akihiko Hoshide and three other astronauts to the International Space Station.It will be the third manned flight to the ISS by the Crew Dragon capsule, developed by the U.S. company Space Exploration Technologies Corp. The previous flight, known as the Crew-1 mission, took place in November, carrying three NASA astronauts and Japan's Soichi Noguchi.The upcoming Crew-2 mission, which will lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, will be joined by Hosh…READ FULL ARTICLE