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CAPE CANAVER – Four astronauts, three from NASA and one from the European Space Agency, arrived early on the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday and hooked up their SpaceX capsule, just two days after the last crew to leave orbit returned. to Earth.
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The meeting of the Crew Dragon capsule with the station less than 16 hours after the launch of astronauts from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, also marked one of Elon Musk’s fastest SpaceX flights to the ISS from takeoff to dock, web NASA broadcast commentators said.
The fully automated docking took place around 7:37 p.m. EDT (2337 GMT), while the Crew Dragon capsule, called Freedom, and the space station flew about 420 kilometers over the central Pacific, according to NASA.
Freedom’s crew consists of three American NASA astronauts – flight commander Kel Lindgren, 49, mission pilot Bob Hines, 47, and mission specialist Jessica Watkins, 33 – and Italian astronaut Samantha Christophoretti. 45, from the European Space Agency (ESA).
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