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SpaceX Makes History As Dragon DM-2 Astronauts Get On Board ISS

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As part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) SpaceX’s Dragon 2 capsule has succesfully let astronauts board the ISS.
At 1:25 PM EDT today, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully delivered astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station and re-opened access to space through locally manufactured spacecraft in America. The two veteran astronauts – one of whom also flew the last Space Shuttle Mission in 2008, were tasked to evaluate the Dragon manned vehicle’s performance through checking the spacecraft’s maneuverability, communication, flight, thrust, docking and other parameters.
The docking and subsequently entry inside the space station marks complete one half of the Dragon 2 vehicle’s DM-2 testing mission. Since SpaceX has designed its spacecraft for re-entering Earth for successfully delivering crew back to NASA headquarters, once both astronauts depart from the ISS on the vehicle, the second phase of the current mission will begin.
SpaceX Dragon Lifts Off To The Skies As Astronauts Commence DM-2 Mission
Following the Falcon 9’s liftoff yesterday, astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley performed a series of critical tests on the Dragon 2 spacecraft which including the far-field manual flight and local vertical, local horizontal tests intended to evaluate the spacecraft’s navigation and maneuverability at a time when it was in an elliptical orbit with the ISS.

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