Four astronauts who launched into space aboard Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX were heading toward a Monday night rendezvous in NASA’s first full-fledged mission ferrying a crew into orbit on a privately owned spacecraft.

WASHINGTON: Four astronauts who launched into space aboard Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX were heading toward a Monday night rendezvous in NASA’s first full-fledged mission ferrying a crew into orbit on a privately owned spacecraft.