<span style="color: #222222;">An American spacecraft designed to fly astronauts to the International Space Station from the United States was launched this morning for its debut unmanned flight.&nbsp;</span><br />” <br />” <span style="color: #222222;">SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifted off at 0749 GMT from National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.</span><br />” <br />” <span style="color: #222222;">The test flight is intended to show the transport capabilities of SpaceX, a private company and contractor of the US space agency NASA for ISS flights. </span><br />” <br />” <span style="color: #222222;">The move came eight years after NASA's space shuttle retired, leaving it dependent on Russia's Soyuz spacecraft to fly crews to the station.&nbsp;</span><br />” <br />” <span style="color: #222222;">Nasa said this is the first test mission of a commercially-built and operated American spacecraft and rocket designed for humans.</span>