The second all-private crew to the International Space Station has blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in the southern United States.
It includes the first female commander of a space station mission, as well as Saudi Arabia's Rayyanah Barnawi, the first female Arab astronaut.

Al Jazeera's Mike Hanna reports from Washington, DC, the US.

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