Crew dragon reaches ISS successfully


Inside view of dragon with astranauts.credit-spacex
After a successful launch of crew dragon aboard a falcon 9,crew dragon reached orbit and got successfully separated from falcon 9's second stage . Every component of both dragon and falcon worked wonderfully putting nasa astranauts Bob behnken and Doug Hurley into low earth orbit but reaching orbit was just part of the mission .From orbit the crew dragon used its draco thrusters to make its way to the station.

  After a 19-hour ride aboard the new SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley docked to the International Space Station May 31, inaugurating a new era of human spaceflight aboard a commercial spacecraft. The Crew Dragon automatically linked up to the international docking adapter at the forward end of the station's Harmony module, setting the stage for a greeting by Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy of NASA and Russian crewmates Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner. The arrival of Hurley and Behnken expanded the Expedition crew on board the orbital outpost.For most part of the mission it was flawless ,there very very small problems that were quickly fixed .

   The crew is now on the station and will remain on the station for unknown period of time probably a month+ .But the mission is still not over yet .The crew dragon will also have to come back re-entering through the atmosphere and have to do a successful splashdown to be able to certify for regular future missions and we really hope that it will be able to do so making spacex capable of sending humans to orbit and bringing them back taking spacex one step closer to make life multiplanetary.

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