Space X launched four astronauts into orbit on Sunday, marking a major milestone for NASA.

It was their first full fledged mission on board a privately owned spacecraft.

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Even gravity contains humanity when we explore as one for all the resilience is Space X's newly designed crew dragon capsule.

It blasted off atop the company's Falcon nine rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Ah, big win for billionaire Elon Musk, who founded the company.

Astronaut commander Mike Hopkins described the launches quote one heck of a ride.

The crew headed to the International Space Station, some 250 miles, or 400 kilometers above earth, at 27 hour trip ahead of liftoff.

The astronauts fitted in their custom white suits driven out to the launch pad and SUVs made by Tesla, another of Musk's companies.

The other NASA crew included Victor Glover, reportedly the first black astronaut to live aboard the orbiting laboratory, and physicist Shannon Walker.

Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi was also on board on his third trip to space.

Sunday's launch puts NASA back in the ring nine years after ending its space shuttle program and signals a new era of cooperation with private companies.

But Space X's Elon Musk was not their toe watch.

The successful liftoff just two days earlier, he said he quote, most likely had a moderate case of covert 19 space.

X and NASA have conducted contact tracing and determined must had not come into contact with anyone who interacted with the astronauts.

The mission is expected to last about six months.