{"id":6857,"date":"2021-04-24T14:41:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T14:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=6857"},"modified":"2022-07-29T01:56:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T23:56:34","slug":"spacexs-crew-dragon-astronauts-arrive-at-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/spacexs-crew-dragon-astronauts-arrive-at-international-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX&#8217;s Crew Dragon astronauts arrive at International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SpaceX\u2019s Dragon spacecraft docks with International Space Station<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Four astronauts on board the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, launched on&nbsp;Falcon 9 rocket, successfully arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) early on Saturday for a six-month stay in space. The Crew-2 mission brings the total number of astronauts on board the orbiting research laboratory to 11.<\/p>\n<p>The Dragon capsule docked autonomously with the orbiting outpost more than 260 miles (420 kilometers) a day after launching from NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time SpaceX has reused a capsule and rocket to launch astronauts for NASA. \u201cIf you have rapid and complete reusability, then that is the gateway to the heavens. That\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to get done, and the support of NASA makes a huge difference,\u201d Elon Musk said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe future&#8217;s looking good. I think we&#8217;re at the dawn of a new era of space exploration,\u201d Musk said after watching the liftoff from launch control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis marks many important milestones, but it really is important for getting a regular cadence of the crew to the station and back,\u201d said Steve Jurczyk, NASA\u2019s acting administrator. \u201cAnd it\u2019s going to really accelerate the research and development we\u2019re able to do on the station.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Astronauts aboard ISS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Crew 2 team consists of two NASA astronauts, Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and fellow mission specialist Thomas Pesquet, a French engineer from the European Space Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Crew-2 joins Expedition 65 crew&nbsp;which includes Shannon Walker, Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Mark Vande Hei of NASA, as well as Soichi Noguchi of JAXA and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The four new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SpaceX<\/a> Crew-2 astronauts joined the Exp 65 crew today bringing the station population to 11. More&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HxB7Zd5Ht5\">https:\/\/t.co\/HxB7Zd5Ht5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HltwdtP7Mv\">pic.twitter.com\/HltwdtP7Mv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; International Space Station (@Space_Station) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Space_Station\/status\/1385928803730432006?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s Dragon spacecraft docks with International Space Station Four astronauts on board the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,125],"tags":[573,244,245,402,246,235],"class_list":["post-6857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-iss","tag-nasa","tag-space","tag-space-tech","tag-spacex","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/A-Falcon-9-rocket-takes-off-from-pad-39A-at-NASA%E2%80%99s-Kennedy-Space-Center-in-Florida-with-four-astronauts-heading-for-the-International-Space-Station.-Image-Credit-SpaceX.jpeg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1MB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10626,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857\/revisions\/10626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}