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YOU WONT BELIEVE: France s adenot and international crew take off for space station - What They Never Told You

From left to right: Andrei Fedyaev, Jack Hathaway, Jessica Meir and Sophie Adenot, now bound for the International Space Station. © SpaceX via AP

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission launched to the International Space Station on Friday, sending four astronauts, including France’s Sophie Adenot, to replace a crew evacuated early because of a medical issue.

The US space agency NASA launched the Crew-12 mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 5:15am EST from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

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