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A third private mission set off for the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday with four Europeans on board, US space agency NASA said. Spanish-born former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría, Italian Walter Villadei, Swedish Marcus Wandt and Turkish Alper Gezeravci lifted off at 4:49 pm (2149 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Space Center in the US state of Florida aboard a Crew Dragon capsule from private space company SpaceX. The capsule is expected to dock as early as 4:19 am, NASA said. Gezeravci was the first Turkish citizen to fly into outer space. The four private space travellers will …

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