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The SpaceX Dragon, named Endeavour, arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) complex with Crew-8 members on board at 2:28 a.m. EST on Tuesday after a 16-hour flight.
Crew-8 members Matthew Dominic, Michael Barrett, and Janet Epps, and Roscosmos astronaut Alexander Grebenkin NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) astronauts Jasmine Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara, ESA (European Space Agency) space station expedition 70 will join the team. Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Furukawa Satoshi, and Roscosmos astronauts Konstantin Borisov, Oleg Kononenko, and Nikolai Chub.
For a short time, the total number of crew members on the space station will be 11 by the time Crew-7 members Moghbeli, Mogensen, Satoshi and Borisov return to Earth.
On Sunday night, a SpaceX rocket lifted off from Florida carrying a crew of three American astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut to the International Space Station (ISS) to begin a six-month science mission in Earth orbit.
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The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket, mounted on top of an autonomously piloted Crew Dragon capsule called Endeavour, lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral along the Atlantic coast of Florida at 10:53 p.m. EST (0353 GMT Monday). Was launched on.
Following Dragon’s link up to the Harmony module, astronauts aboard Dragon and the space station will begin standard leak checks and pressurization between the spacecraft in preparation for opening the hatch.
Named Crew-8, the mission is the eighth long-duration ISS team that NASA has flown on a SpaceX launch vehicle since the private rocket enterprise founded by billionaire Elon Musk in 2002 and headquartered near Los Angeles launched American astronauts into orbit in May 2020. Started sending. ,
Crew-8 is expected to remain at the space station until the end of August and collectively conduct about 250 experiments in the microgravity environment of the orbital platform.
The ISS, the length of a football field and the largest man-made object in space, has been continuously operated by a US-Russian-led consortium that includes Canada, Japan and 11 European countries.
(with inputs from agencies)
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Published: March 05, 2024, 04:43 PM IST
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