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SpaceX, Elon Musk’s private space company, launched its first full-scale space mission on Sunday, sending four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on the Crew Dragon spacecraft, which was tested half a year ago. The spacecraft launch from NASA’s Cape Canaveral Space Center at 7:27 pm
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 dock after 27 hours of flight at the International Space Station in Sergei and Sergei, where Sergei -Sverchkov is Russian and Kate Rubins is an American astronaut. They plan to spend 6 months there, which is why they are now especially envied by many.
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.
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 with Russian spacecraft. SpaceX has contracted with NASA for $ 3 billion to transport the astronauts. They have a similar contract with Boeing’s space company, but it’s still behind SpaceX for now. According to the space agency, these deals could save billions. (BBC / MTI)
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