SpaceX Sails Through Second ISS Crew Taxi Launch

Crew Dragon Endeavor
Crew Dragon Endeavour, making its second trip to the space station following the May-August 2020 Demo-2 flight test, approaches the forward-facing Harmony docking port on April 24. Aboard the capsule were SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, both with NASA; Japan’s Akihiko Hoshide; and Thomas Pesquet with the European Space Agency.
Credit: NASA
With the arrival of the four-member SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts at the International Space Station (ISS), NASA and its partners are stepping up the operational pace of the orbiting laboratory as they prepare for a new phase of expansion. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur were joined...

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