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Half a year after the first expedition, the private space company ElX Musk, a high-tech SpaceX entrepreneur, launched the first large-scale space mission. Aboard Crew Dragon, four astronauts travel to the International Space Station.
The spacecraft launch from NASA’s Cape Canaveral Space Center at 7:27 pm
The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket, which lifts the Crew Dragon aloft, after a minute of flight as planned, separated in the usual way and returned to a floating platform. The spacecraft, with three American astronauts and a Japanese on board, Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, as well as the Japanese Soichi Noguchi, is expected to After a 27-hour flight, you can dock at the International Space Station, which floats about 400 kilometers above Earth. where Sergei Rizhikov and the Russian Sergei Kudj-Sverchkov and the American astronaut Kate Rubins currently work.
SpaceX’s new space capsule was first launched into space in May this year with two veteran American astronauts, Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley. It was the first time in the history of American spaceflight that NASA launched a space expedition in partnership with a private company. Since the “retirement” of the space shuttles, in the last nine years, American astronauts have arrived at the ISS in Russian spacecraft.
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