SpaceX Dragon 'Freedom' named for first astronaut's ride into space

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SpaceX's Crew-4 mission will fly to the International Space Station on April 19.

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And the mission's Dragon capsule just got a name: Freedom.

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"FREEDOM!! Crew-4 will fly to the International Space Station in a new Dragon capsule named 'Freedom.'

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SpaceX's Crew-4 mission will be the company's fifth crewed spaceflight for NASA,

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following the crewed test flight Demo-2 and three previous operational crewed missions to the space station.

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The company is still on track for an April 19 flight from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the launch site of all of SpaceX's previous crewed missions.

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