Posted on Aug 26, 2023
SpaceX launches 11th crewed mission as it heads to the International Space Station
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Four people are heading to the International Space Station after a successful pre-dawn liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
This mission — called Crew-7 — took about nine minutes to reach 17,500 mph and enter low-earth orbit. For the next 29 hours, the capsule will race to catch up to the I.S.S. with a planned docking around 8:50 a.m. ET on Sunday. This is a scheduled six-month mission that's packed with dozens of science and other experiments.
Four people are heading to the International Space Station after a successful pre-dawn liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
This mission — called Crew-7 — took about nine minutes to reach 17,500 mph and enter low-earth orbit. For the next 29 hours, the capsule will race to catch up to the I.S.S. with a planned docking around 8:50 a.m. ET on Sunday. This is a scheduled six-month mission that's packed with dozens of science and other experiments.
SpaceX launches 11th crewed mission as it heads to the International Space Station
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."The last NASA mission — Crew-6 — (which launched in March) is still docked to the I.S.S. and set to splashdown off the Florida coast five days after Crew-7 arrives at the space station.
This mission is flying a Crew Dragon spacecraft named Endurance. This capsule has flown in space two previous times and gone to the International Space Station on each mission (Crew-3 from November 2021 to May 2022; and Crew-5 from October 2022 to March 2023). Endurance has spent a total of 333 days in space."...
..."The last NASA mission — Crew-6 — (which launched in March) is still docked to the I.S.S. and set to splashdown off the Florida coast five days after Crew-7 arrives at the space station.
This mission is flying a Crew Dragon spacecraft named Endurance. This capsule has flown in space two previous times and gone to the International Space Station on each mission (Crew-3 from November 2021 to May 2022; and Crew-5 from October 2022 to March 2023). Endurance has spent a total of 333 days in space."...
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