Latest SpaceX crew arrives in International Space Station

A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule has arrived
safely on the International Space Station (ISS),
carrying two USglo astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a United
Arab Emirates astronaut to start a six-month science mission.

The autonomously flying spacecraft dubbed Endeavour docked
to the area station shortly after 1:40 a.m. EST (0640 GMT) on
Friday, almost 25 hours after launching from NASA’s Kennedy
Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The coupling was confirmed because the ISS and capsule flew in
tandem at 17,500 miles per hour (28,164 kph) some 250 miles (240
km) above Earth throughout the coast of East Africa, based on a
reside NASA webcast of the rendezvous.

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Paving the best way for moon and mars expeditions

Some of the analysis will assist pave the best way for future
long-duration human expeditions to the Moon and past below
NASA’s Artemis program, its successor to Apollo, the US area
company mentioned.

The ISS crew is also liable for performing upkeep
and repairs aboard the station, and to organize for the arrival
and departure of different astronauts and cargo payloads.

Designated Crew 6, the mission marks the sixth long-duration
ISS workforce that SpaceX has flown for NASA for the reason that non-public rocket
enterprise based by billionaire Elon Musk started sending American
astronauts to orbit in May 2020. 

Musk is CEO of electrical automobile
maker Tesla and social media platform Twitter.

The newest crew was led by Stephen Bowen, 59, a onetime US
Navy submarine officer who has logged greater than 40 days in orbit
as a veteran of three Space Shuttle flights and 7
spacewalks.

Fellow NASA astronaut Warren “Woody” Hoburg, 37, an
electrical engineer, laptop science knowledgeable and business
aviator designated, was making his first spaceflight.

The Crew 6 mission additionally was notable for its inclusion of UAE
astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, 41, the second particular person from his
nation to fly to area and the primary to launch from US soil
as a part of a long-duration area station workforce.

Rounding out the four-man Crew 6 was Russian cosmonaut
Andrey Fedyaev, 42, who like Alneyadi is an engineer and
spaceflight rookie designated as a mission specialist for the
workforce.

Fedyaev is the second cosmonaut to fly aboard an American
spacecraft below a renewed ride-sharing deal signed in July by
NASA and the Russian area company Roscosmos, regardless of heightened
tensions between Washington and Moscow over Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine.

On arrival, the crew ready to conduct a sequence of
commonplace leak checks and to pressurize the passageway between
the capsule and the ISS earlier than they will open the hatch to the
inside of the area station.

Those seven are anticipated to finish their mission and depart the area station this month. Four will return within the SpaceX Dragon they rode to orbit in October, and three others will experience house in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft flown empty to the ISS final week to exchange one which sprang a coolant leak whereas docked to the station in December.

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Source: Reuters