The SpaceX spacecraft has arrived at the International Space Station

NASA and European Space Agency astronauts who successfully orbited the Cru Dragon Azadi spacecraft yesterday successfully joined the International Space Station today.

Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines, NASA's Jessica Watkins and European Space Agency's Samantha Cristoforetti Wednesday (27 April) On the morning of Thursday, May 28, at 7:37 PM in the Eastern Time Zone (04:07 Tehran time), while the Dragon SpaceX spacecraft was landing, they joined the International Space Station, which slowly flew over 420. After moving the Crew Dragon capsule to the Harmony Module, the Dragon astronauts examined the standard of leakage and pressure between the spacecraft and the station. To be ready to open the valve. The astronauts then successfully entered the Space Station at about 21:15 Eastern time (05:45 Tehran time).

They had joined the Expedition 67 mission crew. The 15-hour, 45-minute journey to the Station set the fastest time for a US Space mission from takeoff to landing on the International Space Station. Meanwhile, Russian missions with the Soyuz spacecraft have a record of reaching the Station in 3 hours.

Astronauts on the Space Station after the arrival of the crew of Cru-4
Credit: NASA

Thus with the presence of" Raja Chari ", "Thomas Marshburn" and "Kayla Barron" and "Matthias Maurer" from ESA and Russian astronauts "Oleg Artemyev", "Denis Matveev", " Sergey Korsakov has now increased the Space station's crew to 11; By the time NASA and SpaceX crew crews return to Earth in early May. And will be the first Dragon crew test flight in 2020. NASA announced in February that it would launch three more manned flights with SpaceX, including the Crow-7, Crow-8 and Crow-9 missions.

Cru-4 astronauts arrive at the Station in three days It follows that another SpaceX manned capsule, Endeavor, in collaboration with Axiom Space, successfully completed the first fully private mission of the International Space Station. This mission is the beginning of more private activities in Earth orbit and the continuation of the construction of a private Space station. p> Sources: NASA, SpaceFlight Now