SpaceX mission reaches International Space Station – Nantucket Island Inquirer

Regina Jorgenson

WednesdayNov25,2020at10:20AM

(Nov. 25, 2020) Last week the NASA SpaceX Crew-1 mission successfully launched and took four astronauts to the International Space Station, also known as the ISS.

A few minutes after launch, a Baby Yoda doll floated free in the cabin, indicating that zero-gravity had been achieved. A short 27 hours later, the craft docked with the ISS.

While a rotating crew of astronauts has been on the ISS continuously for the past two decades, this mission is remarkable for several reasons.

First, it marks the first in a series of regularly-crewed SpaceX missions to the ISS. Until this year, the United States has relied upon the Russian Soyuz spacecrafts to carry astronauts to and from the ISS, since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011.

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