SpaceX spacecraft flight: four astronauts arrived at the ISS – News

• Four astronauts have arrived at the International Space Station ISS on the space shuttle “Crew Dragon” operated by the private company SpaceX.
• The “Crew Dragon” has docked on the ISS after more than 27 hours of flight, reports the US space agency Nasa.
• The spacecraft was launched on Sunday night (local time) six months after its historic maiden flight from Cape Canaveral spaceport in Florida for the first time for a regular mission to space.
• Both the president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, and the incumbent president, Donald Trump, have congratulated on Twitter.

American NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, as well as Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, will remain aboard the ISS for six months and will oversee various experiments. Astronaut Kate Rubins and her Russian colleagues Sergej Ryschikow and Sergej Kud-Swertschkow are currently at the station.

The newly arrived crew, “Crew-1”, is the first to regularly fly to the ISS on the “Crew Dragon” after the manned test was successful in the spring. The two American astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken left for the ISS during this test in May and returned in August.

It was the first time, after a hiatus of nearly nine years, that astronauts returned to orbit from US soil, and the first time they were transported by a private space company. SpaceX had previously only transported cargo to the ISS.