The spacecraft with the Italian ship hooked up to the hatch of the ISS. The applause at the NASA center in Houston. Expedition 67-68 will last nearly six months
Successful docking in space. Samantha Cristoforetti with the Crew Dragon spacecraft named Freedom, in homage to the capsule that in 1961 brought the first American, Alan Shepard, to space perfectly hooked to the hatch of the ISS, the International Space Station at 1.40 Italian time. Crew-4 had taken off yesterday since Kennedy Space Center of NASA aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. As soon as it docked the station, applause from Houston Texan Center from Nasa personnel, ESA and Space X resounded thunderous. was an orbital chase by the spacecraft of Elon Musk’s companywhich lasted about 17 hours.
Immediately after the opening of the hatch separating the Crew Dragon Freedom capsule from the International Space Station (ISS) and the crew of the Crew-4 mission commenced the second mission of Samantha Cristoforetti, MinervaOnce aboard the orbiting laboratory, astronauts Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins and Kjell Lindgren of NASA, along with Cristoforetti ESA (European Space Agency)it will take nearly six months for Expedition 67-68: they will conduct that new scientific research in areas such as materials science, health technology and plant science to prepare for human exploration beyond Earth’s orbit. Their return is scheduled for mid-September.
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