SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft with a crew of commercial tourists docked at the International Space Station (ISS).
This was reported by SpaceX on Monday. twitterReports Ukrinform.
Post “Placement confirmed!” he is writing.
The crew will be on the ISS for a week.
As Ukrinform reports, SpaceX sent tourists from Florida to the International Space Station.
The crew included former NASA astronaut and Axiom employee Peggy Whitson, 63, who led the AX-2 crew, American businessman John Shoffner, oncology researcher Ryan Barnawi, and former military pilot Ali Al-Karni from Saudi Arabia.
The AX-2 mission (the International Space Station’s second special mission) is one of a series of missions that Axiom Space and NASA hope will continue to encourage private sector participation in spaceflight, particularly in low Earth orbit where the space station is located. found