Tag: capsule
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches 2nd crew, regular station crew flights begin
SpaceX found four astronauts to the International Space Station on the very first full-fledged cab flight for NASA with a private firm. The Falcon rocket Sunday thundered to the night from Kennedy Space Center with three Americans and one Japanese, the next team to be started by SpaceX. The Dragon capsule on top named Resilience…
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SpaceX rocket ship blasts off on historic flight
CAPE CANAVERAL: A rocket ship built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company thundered from Earth with two Americans on Saturday, ushering in a brand new era in commercial space travel and putting the United States back into the company of launching astronauts into orbit out of U.S. land for the very first time in almost a…
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Inside the SpaceX Dragon capsule – BBC News
A new astronaut capsule, which launched on Saturday from Florida on a Falcon rocket, has successfully guided itself into the International Space Station using computers and sensors. Astronauts on board ISS have now been inside the capsule. The Dragon SpaceX demonstration flight vehicle will stay docked until 8 March when it will detach and drop…