CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – Almost 24 hours after launching from Florida, SpaceX’s Team Dragon capsule provided NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Spaceport Station on Sunday, marking the first U.S. space capsule to do so with a team given that2011
The space station’s current crew welcomed them aboard with hugs and handshakes on schedule at 1: 25 p.m. EDT, after performing a critical spacecraft docking milestone and beginning the team’s potentially months-long remain in the orbital laboratory.
Applause could be heard from the station’s downlink to objective control in Houston, Texas as Behnken, 49, and Hurley 53, became the very first American astronauts released to the station from U.S. soil in almost a decade.
” I will tell you, the whole world saw this mission, and we are so, so proud for everything you have provided for our country and in reality to motivate the world,” NASA administr