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you're live in the "cnn newsroom." i'm jim acosta in atlanta. >> four, three, two, one. engine's full power. and liftoff. falcon 9, go axiom. [ applause ] together we expand -- >> this is a beautiful sight if you just missed it, right now four private astronauts are on the way to the international space station. the axiom 2 mission blasted off from the kennedy space center just minutes ago. we'll go there live in just a few minutes to wrap up some really remarkable developments on the space coast. but on the meantime, here in atlanta and in washington, negotiations are resuming to co...

you're live in the "cnn newsroom." i'm jim acosta in atlanta. we begin this hour with high stakes negotiations starting back up on the nation's looming debt crisis. just minutes ago talks resumed on the staff level in washington. but they will set the stage for a top level meeting tomorrow. president biden is expected to sit down with republican house speaker kevin mccarthy. the two men spoke by phone today as the president was flying back home from the g7 summit in japan. this new glimmer of optimism is a quick compromise appears increasingly bleak. the u.s. could run out of money t...

The agreement should give British astronauts more flights into space.

Saudi astronaut Rayyanah Barnawi is the first Muslim, Arab woman to be blasted into space and join the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) orbiting the earth. Barnawi, 33,

RIYADH: Saudi astronauts Rayyanah Barnawi and Ali Alqarni, and Americans Peggy Whitson and John Schoffner, made a safe splashdown off the coast of Florida early Wednesday morning, after completing a successful eight-day Ax-2 mission on the International Space Station. The 12-hour journey of the Dragon capsule back to Earth from the ISS was watched live by many Saudi citizens,