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🐉 A Dragon approaches. What do you do? ⁣ ⁣ If you're aboard the International Space Station (iss), you prepare for its arrival and photograph it. Because you know that inside that Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Resilience, are four astronauts: Shannon Walker, Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover (astrovicglover) of NASA, and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (jaxajp). These four crew members launched at 7:27 p.m. EST on Nov. 15 (00:27 UTC/GMT on Nov. 16) on the NASA SpaceX Crew-1 mission, a spectacular liftoff that marked the first crew rotation flight of a commercial spacecraft.⁣ ⁣ After catching up to the space station, the Crew Dragon docked to the orbiting laboratory at 11:01 p.m. EST on Nov. 16 (4:01 a.m. UTC/GMT on Nov. 17) with supplies for the crew, along with science experiments that benefit humanity. The mission will last just about six months.⁣ ⁣ Aside from cargo, this international mission takes the dreams of people from all over the world. As Soichi Noguchi s...

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