The announcement was met with applause at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
The SpaceX team in Hawthorne, California watches as the SpaceX Crew Dragon docks with the International Space Station’s Harmony module. Image: NASA via AP The SpaceX team in Hawthorne, California watches as the SpaceX Crew Dragon docks with the International Space Station’s Harmony module. Image: NASA via AP SPACEX’S NEW DRAGON capsule successfully docked on the International Space Station today, NASA and SpaceX confirmed during a live broadcast of the mission.The docking began at 10.
The mission is a test launch with only a dummy on board the capsule ahead of a manned flight scheduled for later this year. SpaceX, founded by billionaire Elon Musk, has made the trip to the ISS a dozen times before since 2012, but only to refuel the station. In 2014, the US space agency awarded contracts to SpaceX and Boeing for them to take over this task. In SpaceX’s case, NASA has agreed to pay $2.6 billion for six round trips to the ISS.
Jim Bridenstine, head of the US space agency, has explained NASA wants to reduce costs in low orbit to devote resources to getting back to the Moon and constructing a small space station in lunar orbit in the 2020s.
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