SPACEX THIRD CREW MISSION TO ISS

SpaceX is preparing for its third space explorer dispatch in less than a year, subsequent to getting the
green light from NASA seven days in front of next Thursday's arranged flight. Supervisors from NASA and
Elon Musk's space organization Thursday cleared the Falcon rocket and Dragon container for a first light
takeoff with a group of four to the International Space Station. They will go through a half year at the
circling lab, supplanting another SpaceX team that is near getting back home. This will be the primary
group flight utilizing a reused Falcon and Dragon. Both were intended for reuse.

The rocket was utilized to dispatch the current station team last November from NASA's Kennedy Space
Center. The container, named Endeavor, additionally will make an encore; it conveyed two aircraft
testers to the space station on SpaceX's first team flight the previous spring.

SpaceX repaired both and added wellbeing redesigns. A large portion of the container is now "flight-
demonstrated," organization authorities noted, aside from some new valves, warm assurance covers
and parachutes.

Kathy Lueders, top of NASA's human investigation office, said it was "moving" to be nearly flying three
SpaceX group trips in 11 months.

"Thinking back, it's super stunning what both the SpaceX and NASA groups have achieved," she said.

SpaceX said it should resolve one issue prior to leading a test terminating at the platform this end of the
week. It seems the organization has been stacking more fluid oxygen into its first-stage supporters than
expected, and designs need to make "extra certain" that represents no dangers, said Bill Gerstenmaier,
another SpaceX VP who used to work for NASA.

Three of the space travelers are back for their subsequent space station mission: NASA's Shane
Kimbrough, France's Thomas Pesquet and Japan's Akihiko Hoshide. NASA space explorer Megan
McArthur was important for the last Hubble Space Telescope fix group in 2009.

For almost 10 years, the solitary course to the space station for space travelers was on Russian rockets.
NASA went to privately owned businesses for taxi administration after the space transports resigned in
2011. SpaceX has been delivering load to the space station since 2012, utilizing a similar sort of rocket
and comparative containers, and reusing those parts also.

By Sangeetha S

19 – 04 - 2021