Famous industrialist Elon Musk’s SpaceX has sent 4 astronauts from the United States, Russia and the United Arab Emirates to the International Space Station.
The Dragon spacecraft, launched Thursday by SpaceX’s Falcon rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, is expected to dock with the International Space Station on Friday (March 3).
Stephen Bowen and Warren Hobock of the United States, Andrey Fedayev of Russia, and Al-Neyadi of the United Arab Emirates are going to the international station through that shuttle.
They will be doing research instead of Frank Rubio of America, Sokai Prokofiev and Dmitri Petalin of Russia, who were already staying there and doing research.
Earlier, Russia’s Soyuz-MS22 spacecraft, which brought the three to the research station in September last year, was hit by an asteroid and leaked, thereby preventing them from returning to Earth.
As a result, they had to stay at the research station for more than the planned six months.
The Soyuz-MS23 spacecraft was launched last week to bring them back to Earth.
In this situation, SpaceX Company has now sent 4 soldiers to carry out research in the International Space Station.
Al-Neyadi will be the 2nd UAE national to go into space out of the 4. He also holds the honor of being the first astronaut from that country to stay in a foreign space station for a month.