On November 10, local time, SpaceX, a space exploration technology company under Tesla CEO Musk, launched the third official manned mission for NASA, sending four astronauts to the International Space Station.
The crew includes a NASA astronaut with space walk experience, two candidate astronauts for future lunar missions, and a German materials scientist. The mission is expected to last about six months, and the crew plans to return to the flight in the spring of 2022.
The four astronauts were carried by SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, and were sent high into the sky by the Falcon 9 rocket from the launch pad of the Kennedy Space Center. Ten minutes after lift-off, the rocket sent the capsule into orbit. Subsequently, the reusable part of the rocket was separated from the space capsule and returned to Earth on its own.
SpaceX has also recently conducted a series of high-profile space missions, including the “Inspiration 4” mission in September this year. That mission put the first all-civilian crew into space orbit.
NASA and SpaceX once again cooperated to send four astronauts to the International Space Station. Click on the video to see what it is!
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