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SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, dubbed Resilience by its crew of three Americans and one Japanese astronaut, docked 27 hours after launch. 5qy8

By Reuters | Updated: 17 November 2020 14:03 IST

SpaceX Crew Dragon Capsule Resilience, Carrying Four Astronauts, Docks With International Space Station

SpaceX’sCrew Dragon capsule was launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla k3o1s

Highlights

The space station is about 250 miles (400 km) above Earth
SpaceX's Crew Dragon had been under development for roughly a decade
The launch marked SpaceX's first operational mission for NASA

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Four astronauts riding a newly designed spacecraft from Elon Musk's SpaceX docked with the International Space Station Monday night, in the first crewed mission on a privately built space capsule purchased by NASA.

Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla.

The hatches are open and NASA's @SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts Shannon Walker, @Astro_Soichi, @AstroVicGlover, and @Astro_illini are the newest residents aboard the @Space_Station. Welcome aboard! pic.twitter.com/WYwC7jRVQk
— NASA (@NASA) November 17, 2020

The space station, an orbital laboratory about 250 miles (400 km) above Boeing s the programme with its own spacecraft late next year.

SpaceX Launches 4 Astronauts to ISS Aboard Crew Dragon 'Resilience'

The Resilience crew includes Crew Dragon commander Mike Hopkins and two fellow Soyuz in 2009.

Another US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts are aboard the space station from a previous mission.

"Welcome to the ISS. We can't wait to have you onboard," said Kate Rubins, a US astronaut already on the space station.

Before receiving its flight certification from NASA last week, SpaceX's Crew Dragon had been under development for roughly a decade under a public-private NASA program started in 2011 to revive the agency's human spaceflight capability.

Sunday night's launch marked SpaceX's first operational mission for NASA under that program, after a test flight last summer with a crew of two US astronauts.

The Resilience crew

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