A Falcon 9 rocket SpaceX ‘with the Dragon capsule Resilience brings four space travelers to the International Space Station (ISS) at one hour. The start is on Monday night 00: 27 UTC from Cape Canaveral in Florida. On board are the Japanese Soichi Noguchi as well as the Americans Shannon Walker, Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover. They are supposed to stay on the ISS for six months.

It is the first commercial manned SpaceX flight after a first manned SpaceX launch to the ISS at the end of May had proven the functionality of the rocket and space capsule. Accordingly, the current flight is called “Crew-1”. As in May, unsuitable weather made it necessary to postpone a day.

Five minutes after the start this was Engine of the second Falcon 9 stage already really hot.

(Image: NASA / Screenshot (gemeifrei))

The first rocket stage was after less than three Minutes separated. She returned to Earth and landed back on a barge in the Atlantic. The first stage should be refurbished and then reused. The second stage was separated after twelve minutes. Two minutes later, NASA reported successful entry into a near-earth orbit (LEO). Resilience is supposed to dock with the ISS on Tuesday night.

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