First U.S. private astronaut mission arrives at space station
Date
4/10/2022 1:03:03 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
The first U.S. private astronaut mission to the International
Space Station (ISS) arrived at the orbiting laboratory Saturday,
Trend reports
citing Xinhua .
The mission, codenamed Ax-1, was launched on SpaceX's Falcon 9
rocket from Kennedy Space Center of National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) in Florida on Friday.
The four-person multinational crew is composed of Commander
Michael Lopez-Alegria and Pilot Larry Connor of the United States,
Mission Specialist Eytan Stibbe of Israel, and Mission Specialist
Mark Pathy of Canada.
It is the first mission with an entirely private crew to arrive
at the ISS, said NASA.
Ax-1 docked to the orbital complex at 8:29 a.m. Eastern Time on
Saturday (0029 GMT on Sunday) while the spacecraft was flying 260
miles (about 418 km) above the central Atlantic Ocean, according to
NASA.
During the 10-day mission, the crew will conduct scientific
research, outreach and other activities, according to NASA.
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