USA: SpaceX and NASA's Crew-6 mission has successfully launched to the International Space Station. Today at 11:04 IST, the Crew Dragon capsule Endeavor lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Due to a clogged filter in the launch system, the previous launch attempt on 27 February was aborted less than three minutes before liftoff.

Crew-6 will be the 69th mission of the ISS. Since November 2000, the orbiting space laboratory has been continuously occupied for more than two decades.

As the name suggests, Crew-6 is SpaceX's sixth astronaut mission to the ISS on behalf of NASA. The mission has experienced two launch delays since its initial launch date of February 26.

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Crew-6 will dock at the ISS on March 3, about 25 hours after launch. Two NASA astronauts Warren Hauberg, pilot, and Stephen Bowen, mission commander, along with United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev serve as mission specialists on the four-person crew.

Alnedi will go down in history as the first astronaut from the UAE to participate in a long space mission.

Crew 6 astronauts will stay in space for six months and manage nearly 200 scientific investigations. The crew will perform a number of experiments in microgravity, including investigations of combustion systems and studies of heart tissue.

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The effect of the spacecraft on immune cells will be studied. During the spacewalk, the team will also collect microbial samples from outside the ISS.

Due to a problem with the ground systems, the launch attempt was aborted on 27 February. Trimethylaluminum triethylboron, also known as TEA-TEB, is a highly flammable liquid used to ignite the Falcon 9 rocket's engines at liftoff.

The launch teams discovered a problem with TEA-TEB. According to NASA, the problem was fixed by replacing a clogged filter and cleaning the system.

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There are currently seven people aboard the International Space Station (ISS): three NASA astronauts, Francisco Rubio, Josh Cassada and Anna Kikina; three cosmonauts, Sergei Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin; and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata.