‘Ride of a Lifetime’: SpaceX record-breaking distributes the ISS to the new crew in 15 hours; Station population 11

SpaceX on Saturday gave the International Space Station (ISS) a fresh crew of four astronauts, which completes the journey from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in a record time of only 15 hours. “Docking confirmed!” SpaceX announced on social media, shared a video of a spacecraft contacting the ISS at the eastern time (11.57 IST) at 2.27 am on Saturday, above the Southeast Pacific Ocean.The arrival crew includes NASA astronaut Zenna Cardman and Mike Finke, Kimia UE of Japan and Oleg Platonov of Russia. They are scheduled to spend at least six months in the circumambulation laboratory, who have been replacing the current residents present there since March.SpaceX is ready to bring that outgoing crew back in early Wednesday. The upcoming crew was initially assigned to various missions. The cardman was drawn from a SpaceX flight last year to make a place for NASA’s Boeing Starlineer Test pilots, Buch Wilmor and Sunita Williams, with a week -long mission to extended to more than nine months.Finke and UE were preparing for future Starlineer Mission, but with a spacecraft at least 2026 due to the thruster and other system problems, they were re -assigned to SpaceX.Platonov was previously removed from the Russian Soyuz launch schedule due to an unknown disease. According to AP’s report, “I have no feeling right now, but happiness. The cardman said before his flight, “Every astronaut wants to live in space. None of us want to live on the ground, but it is not about me.”To reduce the cost, NASA is weighing the option of sending three astronauts, instead of normal four on the future SpaceX mission. Regarding Starlineer, NASA is now considering a cargo-keval flight for its next launch before resumption of the crude mission. NASA’s new acting administrator and US Transport Secretary Sean Dafi said, “What we learn on these missions is that we are going to take us from the Moon and then Mars to Mars, which I think NASA’s new acting administrator and US Transport Secretary Sean Dafi said,” I think the direction is. ” ,During its mission, crew -11 astronauts will conduct the simulation of the moon -land landscapes, especially those who may be near the lunar South Pole as part of the Artemis program run by the US, report of AFP. The arrival of the upcoming crew keeps the population of the space station at 11 for time. Although the 15-hour travel was quick to American standards, Russia still holds a record for the fastest visit of ISS, completing in just three hours.