SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy House Middle this morning at 3:27AM ET, NASA introduced as we speak. The rocket pushed 4 astronauts on NASA’s Crew-7 mission into orbit earlier than a scheduled Sunday morning dock with the Worldwide House Station (ISS).
The mission brings astronauts from 4 international locations to the ISS — Jasmin Moghbeli of NASA, the European House Company’s Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Company astronaut Satoshi Furakawa, and Konstantin Borisov, a Russian cosmonaut. When the Dragon spacecraft — named Endurance — autonomously docks with the ISS, it is going to deliver the station’s crew quantity as much as 11 for a number of days till board the capsule and return to Earth in a number of days.
“Aboard station,” says NASA Administrator Invoice Nelson, “the crew will conduct greater than 200 science experiments and expertise demonstrations to organize for missions to the Moon, Mars, and past, all whereas benefitting humanity on Earth.”
