Defense News in Brief: Navy Astronaut and SpaceX Crew-3 Shipmates Headed to International Space Station

Source: United States Navy

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts, including Navy Lt. Cmdr. Kayla Barron, are in orbit following their launch to the International Space Station on the third commercial crew rotation mission aboard the microgravity laboratory. The international crew of astronauts lifted off at 9:03 p.m. EST Wednesday from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.