4 astronauts including Japan's Furukawa head to space station

A team of four astronauts from Japan, Denmark, Russia and the United States lifted off early Saturday aboard a SpaceX craft bound for the International Space Station and successfully entered orbit.The Crew-7 mission comprises NASA's Jasmin Moghbeli, Satoshi Furukawa of Japan, Andreas Mogensen of Denmark and Konstantin Borisov of Russia. It is expected to dock at the ISS on Sunday.They will engage in a six-month microgravity research program. The SpaceX Dragon space capsule, called Endurance, was launched atop its Falcon 9 rocket at 3:27 a.m. from Kennedy Space Center of the National Aeronau…READ FULL ARTICLE