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A team of four astronauts from Japan, Denmark, Russia and the United States lift off aboard a SpaceX craft bound for the International Space Station and successfully entered orbit.

Canaveral. its great to see that dragon space capsule pull through a port like this. but were just now seconds, if not less than a minute away from this historic touchdown. but you can just feel that people are excited about what is happening right now. >> it is very exciting to watch. as we watch this all happening, what is the moment that people in mission control say, okay, our work here is done? >> well, the big event was the parachute deployed of four mains. from that cheering maybe theyve ...

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Dragon space capsule is set to dock with the iss. joining to us talk about the history being made here, tom jones, former nasa shuttle astronaut and fox news contributor. so whats the significance of this? youve been an advocate of this kind of program in the past, right? >> right, jon. following shuttle retirement nasa needs a way to get 40 metric tons of supplies up to the space station the next five years to support research and give the crews supplied. there is no way to get it up from our s...

European space agency, nasa, the japanese space agency and the russians is they can then put a bunch of trash and garbage on board, bring that capsule back to earth. it is recyclable capsule. it will parachute somewhere out in the pacific. it can seat anywhere from four to six astronauts. three or four years from now that is the plan if everything goes well, actually sending up astronauts in about four years. jenna: sounds easy enough, right? put out the arm and grab that thing and bring it into...

They are there to escort the jet to the ground and if necessary, shoot it out of the sky but obviously, that didnt happen here and they hope it never does. >> shepard: rick leventhal live in new york city. thanks very much. at this very moment, a spacecraft is orbiting the earth and heading toward a hookup with the international space station. what makes this unique is its the first time a private company has sent up such a rocket. before now, only large governments carried out missions like thi...

Trajectory, 30 kilometers altitude, 1 kilometer velocity. >> you are watching history in the making. all has gone according to plan so far. this will become the first private company to launch its own craft to the international spacestation. atop that rocket is the dragon space capsule. it is designed to ferry supplies to and from the international spacestation. there are no astronauts on board for this mission, but the reusable dragon capsule can holdup to seven people. if the flight succeeds w...