The Russian space agency Roskosmos, until then, the only one capable of sending cosmonauts to the international space Station (ISS), has welcomed on Sunday the u.s. company SpaceX for the successful take-off of its rocket carrying two american astronauts on the orbital station.

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With this launch from the Kennedy space center, SpaceX became the first private company to send astronauts into space, a historic success that offers the United States a new means of space transport after nine years of interruption.