SpaceX Crew Dragon: A New Era in Space Exploration

SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully took off from Kennedy Space Centre for the International Space Station (ISS) recently, with two NASA astronauts Behnken and Hurley.

  • The spacecraft is the first to take the American astronauts to orbit from American soil in nearly a decade.
  • The mission also marks the first launch of a rocket owned by SpaceX; the commercial space company founded by Elon Musk.

Crew Dragon

  • The Crew Dragon is the spacecraft that transports astronauts to the ISS. It is a sleek evolution of the Dragon spacecraft which was built to ferry cargo to the orbiting outpost.
  • The Crew Dragon ....
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