First flight of SpaceX spacecraft tailored to fly astronauts to International Space Station docks, NASA and SpaceX confirm
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard takes off during the Demo-1 mission, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 2, 2019.
SpaceX's new Dragon capsule successfully docked on the International Space Station on Sunday, NASA and SpaceX confirmed during a live broadcast of the mission.The docking began at 1051 GMT, more than 400 km above the Earth's surface, north of New Zealand – and 27 hours after the capsule's launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida.
The mission is a test launch and only has a dummy on board the capsule ahead of a manned flight scheduled for later this year.The Dragon capsule will spend five days docked to the orbiting outpost, before making a retro-style splashdown in the Atlantic next Friday. NASA recently turned to private companies, SpaceX and Boeing, and has provided them USD 8 billion to build and operate crew capsules to ferry astronauts to and from the space station.Source: TRTWorld and agencies
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