International crew, recycled capsule: SpaceX prepares to launch

Four astronauts are set to lift off from the US state of Florida on Thursday headed to the International Space Station.

For the first time, the US space agency NASA is putting its trust in a recycled SpaceX rocket and capsule for a crew as it prepares to send four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). US Astronaut Megan McArthur takes special pleasure in the reused spacecraft set to soar Thursday morning. In “a fun twist,” she’ll sit in the same seat in the same capsule as her husband, Bob Behnken, did last spring for a test flight to the ISS. “It’s kind of a fun thing that we can share. I can see him and say, ‘Hey, can you hand over the keys. I’m ready now to go,’ “ she said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.