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SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule is attached to the International Space Station

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule is attached to the International Space Station

Almost twenty-four hours later Depart from planet Earth SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft joins the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday morning, April 24, as planned, with four astronauts, including Frenchman Thomas Pesket.

Named Try, The capsule is chopped in the Harmony volume on Saturday morning. The event and the welcoming ceremony are broadcast live by the US space agency NASA.

In addition to Thomas Baskett, the other three crew members for the European Space Agency (ESA) Crew-2 mission are Americans Shane Kimberly and Megan McArthur and Japanese Akihiko Hoshaid. This is the third mission for SpaceX since the United States relaunched manned spaceflight.

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“New Era of Space Research”

The crew boarded SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule on April 23: Thomas Baskett, Megan McArthur, Shane Kimbero and Akihiko Hosheid (pictured March 3, 2021).

The liftoff took place at dawn on Friday at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., To applaud from SpaceX’s control room. “It’s great to be back in space.”, Started Shane Kimbero as he entered orbit.

“We are at the dawn of a new era of space research.”, Elon Musk, founder of the Tesla Automotive Group, and SpaceX, a private company that imposed itself on NASA to carry humans into space. Success of SpaceX’s first drone in May 2020 After breaking the Russian monopoly on aircraft to the ISS and completing the “shuttle” space shuttle program in 2011, the ability to accomplish this feat was returned to the Americans.

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On Friday the aircraft reused the propulsion used during the (first) drone test flight, and the Crew Dragon spacecraft was similar to the aircraft tested by humans last May.

Six months of work

Thomas Baskett became the first European to fly the Crew Dragon capsule. The European Space Agency has developed the nickname “Alpha” to refer to Alpha Centauri, the closest stellar system to our solar system.

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“This is a golden age for us in operating the International Space Station.”, Director of the ISS Project for the European Space Agency explained to Agencies France-Press (AFP) Frank de Vinne. The next European to be part of the SpaceX mission this fall is German Matthias Moorer and Italian Samantha Cristoboretti next spring.

“Three European astronauts in a row on the ISS, which is unique to us”, Underlined by Joseph Ashbatcher, director of the European Space Agency.

During its six-month journey, the Crew-2 team will be responsible for conducting about 100 scientific experiments, including the effects of weight loss on brain organoids (mini-brain developed in the lab).

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Scientists hope that this research will help space agencies produce teams that will expose teams to space hardships in the long run and help combat brain disease on Earth.

World with AFP

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