TTO – On the morning of November 11, US space agency NASA and SpaceX company launched a spacecraft carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) from Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, State Florida.The launch event of the Dragon Crew-3 spacecraft took place at 9:03 p.m. Eastern time, November 10 (ie 9:03 a.m. Vietnam time, November 11).
SpaceX’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Dragon Crew-3 spacecraft carrying four astronauts: Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, NASA’s Kayla Barron, and the European Space Agency’s Matthias Maurer. The 22-hour flight to the International Space Station (ISS).
The launch of the Dragon Crew-3 spacecraft marks SpaceX’s 24th launch in 2021 in Florida, this time reusing a Falcon 9 rocket.
The newly built Dragon Crew-3 cabin is nicknamed “Dragon’s Resilience”. Previously, due to bad weather, the Dragon Crew-3, scheduled to launch on October 31, had to be postponed.
NASA has decided to bring back the previous group of astronauts – astronauts: Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of NASA, Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency ESA and Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Space Exploration Agency – to return. returned to Earth on November 9, before launching Dragon Crew-3 to bring another group of astronauts to replace them.
With the 11-11 event, so far, SpaceX has put a total of 18 people into orbit in less than 2 years, including 4 citizens participating in a three-day tour around Earth within the framework of the Inspiration4 mission. .
Currently, NASA focuses on deeper space exploration projects like Artemis. This is NASA’s latest lunar exploration program, focused on returning humans to the Moon.