Science & Planet and The new spaceship Crew Dragon of the American raketbouwer SpaceX, businessman Elon Musk, is today successfully docked to the international space station (ISS). Confirmed that the American space agency Nasa and SpaceX during the video broadcast of the link.
To 11.51 it hours was the contact of a fact, 27 hours after the launch with a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. The link took place 400 kilometres above the earth’s surface, north of New Zealand. Within two hours, the next phase is planned with the opening of the hatch.
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The unmanned spacecraft, built to transport people, put in for the test flight course to the ISS with a pop on board. The Crew Dragon had itself autonomously to the ISS link. Next Friday is the spaceship back to earth. Ripley, the pop on board named after the main character in the Alien movies, is equipped with sensors to see what are the forces that real astronauts would undergo and through the capsule, there is also a range of measuring instruments. to
Succeed in the test, there would still be before the end of the year, two astronauts with the Crew Dragon travel. the
About eight years ago stopped the USA with autonomous human spaceflight with the space shuttle. Since 2011 Russia on the basis Bajkonoer in Kazakhstan in the transportation of American astronauts to and from the ISS.
