🐉 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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