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At 4:27 pm Sunday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster exploded alive on the Kennedy Space Center ‘s launch pad 39A, illuminating the Florida coast. Image of the Cum Dragon Crew Dragon spacecraft-correct launch, labeled Regression, marked A historic moment in American space travel.
Not since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011, NASA has not sent humans into orbit from American soil on a mission. The release for this particular task has been delayed, pushed back and postponed several times – the original timeline includes the November 2016 release date. Four years A few technologies will stumble later, Recession is now connected to the International Space Station.
“By working together during these difficult times, you have inspired the nation and the world, the name of this small vehicle, the setback,” said Michael Hopkins, Crew-1’s spacecraft commander before the launch.
The docking was scheduled to take place at PD at 8pm, and it was just in time. However, the shadows obscured the crew’s view of the space station, and the astronauts decided to create a narrow grip 20 meters away from the docking adapter. After waiting for the “sunset” and the shadows to recede, the recession contacted the ISS and officially performed a “soft catch” at 8:01 p.m., and at about 8:15 p.m.
“This is the new era of aircraft flying from the Florida coast to the International Space Station,” Hopkins said of the docking.
Crew Dragon hosted an international meeting of astronauts: Hopkins, Victor Clover And Shannon Walker NASA, plus Sochi Nokuchi Japanese Space Agency, Jaxa. After a few safety tests and a reception on Tuesday morning, the team will engage in scientific testing and maintenance-related work. They are expected to spend the next six months at the station. Dragon is autonomous and is estimated to stay at the station for 210 days according to NASA requirements. Although Gate foundation has released a new design of the world’s first commercial hotel in space it will take huge time to complete.
NASA and SpaceX representatives celebrated the launch site at a post-launch conference on Sunday. “This is a great day for the United States and a great day for Japan,” said NASA executive Jim Bridenstein. “The big milestone here is that we are now moving away from development and testing to operational aircraft.”
“I look forward to experiencing a new era and moving together for the future,” said Hiroshi Sasaki, Vice President of Jaxa.
Within 10 minutes of launch, the first phase of the Falcon 9 booster landed safely on the Just Reed The Instructions transship parked in the Atlantic. This is the first time a reusable rocket has been used in a mission, and it is planned to be reused on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, Crew-2’s next operational aircraft.
The launch of the Crew-2 is scheduled for March 2021, carrying four more astronauts. It will re-use the Crew Dragon initiative that was first used in the SpaceX Demo-2 mission in May.
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About 12 minutes later, the recession broke away from the second phase and went its way.
This is not the first time a Falcon 9 rocket has launched a crew dragon spacecraft into space. In May, there were NASA astronauts Bob Behanken and Doug Hurley The first two humans to be put into orbit via SpaceX’s workhorse rocket. But it was a test mission, selecting the final box before the official start of operations for NASA’s Business Group project.
Crew-1 marks the return of operational aircraft to US soil and CCP’s first aircraft. Until recently, NASA was buying aircraft on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Flying SpaceX, NASA will save about 25 million per seat.
The astronauts were sent to ISS. NASA has also contracted Boeing to deliver to, but The company’s crew spacecraft, Starliner, got into technical trouble During the launch of its first unpublished demonstration.
you can See the launch resume below.
Updated November 17: Docking hit added, title changed
