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On board the capsule, dubbed “Resilience”, three Americans from NASA, Commander Michael Hopkins, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialist Shannon Walker, and an astronaut from the Japanese Space Agency (Jaxa), Soichi Noguchi.
Waiting for them at the orbital station, the American Kate Rubins, a flight engineer, and the two Russian cosmonauts, Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and the flight engineer Sergey Kud-Sverchkov. The four astronauts will remain on the ISS for six months, during which they will conduct various scientific experiments.
This time, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, was forced to monitor the launch of his Crew Dragon spacecraft from afar, due to the “very likely” coronavirus infection, as he himself tweeted. To ensure the success of the mission, NASA has introduced severe anti-Covid measures, starting with the astronauts, who have been subjected to a highly controlled quarantine.
Trump’s tweet “A great launch! NASA was close to disaster when we took control of it. It is now again the most ‘attractive’ and advanced space center in the world, by far.” Donald Trump tweeted it, but Joe Biden hit him in time when commenting on the launch of the Crew Dragon spacecraft.
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