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Nasa to return to crewed spaceflight with SpaceX capsule launch
Jaxa (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, who comprises Crew-1 with Nasa astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins.
Washington, United States - The Crew Dragon capsule, named "Resilience" by its crew, is due to launch at 4.49am UAE time on Sunday.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is poised to send a crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station on Saturday evening in Nasa’s first operational mission using the Crew Dragon capsule.
The Crew Dragon capsule, named "Resilience" by its crew, is due to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 7:49 p.m. ET on Saturday (4.49am UAE on Sunday) from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida carrying three US astronauts and one from Japan, Soichi Noguchi.
The roughly eight-hour flight to the station will be SpaceX’s first operational mission, as opposed to a test, after NASA officials this week signed off on Crew Dragon’s design, ending a nearly 10-year development phase for SpaceX under the agency’s public-private crew programme.
"The history being made this time is we’re launching what we call an operational flight to the International Space Station," Nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said during a press conference at Kennedy Space Center.
Musk, who usually attends high-profile SpaceX missions in person at Kennedy Space Center, said Thursday that he took four coronavirus tests on the same day, with two returning negative and two producing positive results.
Bridenstine, asked on Friday if Musk will be in the launch control room for liftoff on Saturday, said agency policy requires employees to quarantine and self-isolate after testing positive for the disease, "so we anticipate that that will be taking place."
Whether Musk came into contact with the astronauts was unclear, but unlikely since the crew has been in routine quarantine for weeks prior to their flight on Saturday.
Nasa contracted SpaceX and Boeing in 2014 to develop competing space capsules aimed at replacing its shuttle program that ended in 2011 and weaning off dependence on Russian rockets to send US astronauts to space.
SpaceX’s final test of its capsule came in August, after the company launched and returned the first astronauts from US soil on a trip to the ISS in nearly a decade. Boeing’s first crewed test mission with its Starliner capsule is planned for late next year.
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