SpaceX Crew-1 mission en route to ISS
The SpaceX Crew-1 mission has successfully launched from Kennedy Space Centre, marking the beginning of the company’s regular operations to transfer astronauts to space.
With three astronauts from NASA and one from Japan’s JAXA lifting off onboard the Falcon 9 rocket, Crew-1 is the second manned flight for Elon Musk’s private space company. A demonstration flight in May saw US astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken briefly deployed to the International Space Station in a Crew Dragon capsule, then returned to Earth. Crew-1 now becomes the first operational flight under SpaceX’s $3bn contract with NASA to regularly taxi astronauts to and from the ISS.
SpaceX Crew Dragon docks with ISS
SpaceX bags Falcon Heavy hat-trick rocket landing
In the minutes following the launch, the manned Dragon spacecraft separated from the Falcon 9, with the rocket then landing cleanly on SpaceX’s drone ship in the Atlantic. The crewed module is expected to dock autonomously to the forward port of the ISS’s Harmony module on Tuesday at around 4am GMT.
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