The manned spacecraft “Dragon” of the American company SpaceX with four astronauts on board docked with the International Space Station (ISS), world agencies reported.
–
The Falcon-9 launch vehicle launched the Dragon into orbit from the Cape Canaveral Cosmodrome, Florida, on Friday. This is the third Dragon flight to the ISS with a crew on board. The first flight was on May 30 last year, and the second – in November. The launch vehicle has been recycled from this flight.
The Endeavor capsule of SpaceX was also recycled, with which the Dragon crew reached the ISS. The same capsule was used in May last year. It docked autonomously with the ISS more than 400 km above the Indian Ocean, a day after the launch of the spacecraft from Florida.
–
Photo: BTA
–
The spacecraft’s crew consists of Shane Kimbrow and Megan MacArthur, NASA astronauts, Thomas Peske, an astronaut at the European Space Agency, and Akihiko Hoshide, an astronaut at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The four have a six-month mission aboard the ISS. All but MacArthur were already aboard the ISS.
–
Photo: BTA
–
In the next four days, there will be 11 astronauts aboard the ISS – six Americans, two Russians, two Japanese and one Frenchman. On Wednesday, astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi will head to Earth in “Dragon”.
–
Photo: BTA
–
–
:quality(80)/cdn-kiosk-api.telegraaf.nl/b5f81d4c-a4ec-11eb-a4a4-0217670beecd.jpg "Jay Gorter dethrones legendary goalkeeper Tonny van Leeuwen | Football")
