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Jakarta: After a successful test mission in August and pocketing a safety certification, billionaire Elon Musk-owned NASA and SpaceX finally completed their first commercial mission successfully. NASA conducts space missions using private company rockets.
Early this morning, NASA included four astronauts in the Crew Dragon SpaceX capsule flying to the International Space Station (ISS) as a second wave after Russia first piloted three astronauts in the past month.
Four astronauts flying Crew Dragon called Resilience will also follow, namely Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi. The four astronauts are made up of four astronauts from NASA, the European Union ESA and Japan’s JAXA.
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The rocket launch process went smoothly, including landing a SpaceX Falcon 9 repeater rocket on a docked ship in the Atlantic Ocean. This adds to the success of using recycled rockets which saves time and costs for conducting space missions.
Take off! pic.twitter.com/Unf1ScdVFB
– SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 16, 2020
The four astronauts will make a nearly 28-hour journey to the International Space Station. There they will meet a NASA astronaut and two Russian astronauts, namely Kate Rubins, Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov.
The three flew a Soyuz MS-17 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. To celebrate the success of NASA and SpaceX’s commercial missions this time, Elon Musk was absent. Previously, he was reportedly still waiting for the PCR swab test results to find out if it was positive for Covid-19 or negative.
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