SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour docks with the Worldwide Area Station on April 24, 2021.NASA TVThe second operational SpaceX crew mission
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour docks with the Worldwide Area Station on April 24, 2021.
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The second operational SpaceX crew mission arrived on the Worldwide Area Station early on Saturday morning, carrying 4 astronauts for a six month keep in house.
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft ‘Endeavour,’ which launched on a Falcon 9 rocket the day earlier than, docked with the ISS at 5:22 a.m. EDT. The capsule carries a global cadre of astronauts: NASA’s Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA’s Akihiko Hoshide and ESA’s Thomas Pesquet.
“Welcome to ISS, we’re so excited to have you ever aboard,” NASA astronaut and house station commander Shannon Walker stated.
The Crew-2 mission briefly brings the full variety of astronauts on board the orbiting analysis laboratory to 11.
The view from SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour of the Worldwide Area Station, in addition to the corporate’s Crew Dragon spacecraft Resilience, because the capsule approached to dock on April 24, 2021.
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Endeavour joins one other Crew Dragon spacecraft, ‘Resilience,’ which arrived on the house station in November carrying astronauts for the Crew-1 mission. SpaceX is planning to return Resilience to Earth with the 4 Crew-1 astronauts on Wednesday, April 28.
From left: Mission specialist Thomas Pesquet of the ESA, pilot Megan McArthur of NASA, commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA, and mission specialist Akihiko Hoshide of JAXA.
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The Crew-2 mission marks extra firsts for SpaceX as properly, with the corporate reusing each a rocket and a capsule for the mission, with Endeavour beforehand flying the Demo-2 mission and the Falcon 9 rocket booster beforehand launching the Crew-1 mission. Moreover, SpaceX surpassed the full variety of astronauts launched to house below the Mercury program that started in 1958.