This is the third flight of a SpaceX spacecraft to the ISS with a crew on board
NEW YORK, April 24. /TASS/. SpaceX's Crew Dragon manned spacecraft with four astronauts on board docked on Saturday to the International Space Station (ISS). The broadcast is conducted on the website of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
[cloud=bc]Docking confirmed – second time at the @space_station for this Dragon pic.twitter.com/JLC9wOjRFT
- SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 24, 2021
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The launch of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle with the Crew Dragon spacecraft was successfully carried out on Friday from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral (Florida). This is the third Crew Dragon flight to the ISS with a crew on board. The first launch took place on May 30, 2020, and the second on November 15, 2020.
The docking took place at 12:08 Moscow time.
The crew of Crew Dragon includes NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan MacArthur, European Space Agency astronaut Tom Pesquet, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide. They will spend about six months in orbit.
