Astronauts head to space station on chartered flight
Axiom-3 mission astronauts, from left, mission specialist Marcus Wandt, of Sweden, mission specialist Alper Gezeravci, of Turkey, pilot Walter Villadei, of Italy, and Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria wave to family after arriving at the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida (John Raoux/AP)
Turkey’s first astronaut, a Swede and an Italian have set off for the International Space Station on a chartered SpaceX flight.
The Falcon rocket blasted off from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Centre in late afternoon, carrying the three men, all with military pilot experience and representing their homelands.
