On April 9, the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavor delivered space tourists to the ISS, and today another Crew Dragon, called Freedom, successfully delivered NASA astronauts and a representative of the European Space Agency to the International Space Station.
Freedom, with four astronauts on board, docked with the ISS at 19:37 US East Coast time (02:37 April 28 Moscow time). Docking took place automatically.
The launch of the spacecraft was carried out on Wednesday at 03:55 US East Coast time (10:55 Moscow time) from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral. The Crew Dragon Freedom crew includes NASA astronauts Chell Lindgren, Robert Hynes and Jessica Watkins, as well as the representative of the European Space Agency, Italian Samantha Cristoforetti. This is the fourth rotation of the ISS crew from the American side as part of NASA’s cooperation with SpaceX.
The Freedom crew will replace American colleagues Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron and the German Matthias Maurer, who arrived at the station on Crew Dragon Endurance on November 11 last year and will return to Earth on it in late April or early May. NASA has yet to announce a date for the undocking.
Source: ixbt
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