SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour docks with the International Space Station on April 24, 2021.
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The 2nd functional SpaceX team objective reached the International Space Station early on Saturday early morning, bring 4 astronauts for a 6 month remain in area.
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft ‘Endeavour,’ which introduced on a Falcon 9 rocket the day previously, docked with the ISS at 5: 22 a.m. EDT. The pill brings a worldwide cadre of astronauts: NASA’s Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA’s Akihiko Hoshide and ESA’s Thomas Pesquet.
“Welcome to ISS, we are so excited to have you aboard,” NASA astronaut and spaceport station leader Shannon Walker stated.
The Crew-2 objective momentarily brings the overall variety of astronauts on board the orbiting lab to 11.
The view from SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour of the International Space Station, along with the business’s Crew Dragon spacecraft Resilience, as the pill approached to dock on April 24, 2021.
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Endeavour signs up with another Crew Dragon spacecraft, ‘Resilience,’ which reached the spaceport station in November bring astronauts for the Crew-1 objective. SpaceX is preparing to return Resilience to Earth with the 4 Crew-1 astronauts on Wednesday, April 28.
From left: Mission expert Thomas Pesquet of the ESA, pilot Megan McArthur of NASA, leader Shane Kimbrough of NASA, and objective expert Akihiko Hoshide of JAXA.
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The Crew-2 objective marks extra firsts for SpaceX also, with the business recycling both a rocket and a pill for the objective, with Endeavour formerly flying the Demo-2 objective and the Falcon 9 rocket booster formerly introducing the Crew-1 objective. Additionally, SpaceX exceeded the overall variety of astronauts introduced to area under the Mercury program that started in 1958.
