Go Dragon! 🐉
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft launched on NASA’s SpaceX
#Crew3 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) Nov. 10, 2021, from NASAKennedy Space Center in Florida.
Aboard were NASAAstronauts Commander Raja Chari (Astro_Raja), Pilot Tom Marshburn
(AstroMarshburn), and Mission Specialist Kayla Barron (Astro_Kayla) along with EuropeanSpaceAgency astronaut Matthias Maurer (ESAMatthiasMaurer). The
#Crew3 astronauts docked to the space station on Nov. 11, 2021, bringing the total crewmember count aboard the ISS to seven.
As commercial companies focus on providing human transportation services to and from low-Earth orbit, NASA is freed up to focus on building spacecraft and rockets for deep space missions. With the ability to purchase astronaut transportation from Boeing and SpaceX as a service on a fixed-price contract, NASA can use resources to put the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon as a part of our
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