SpaceX Crewed Spacecraft 'Resilience' Successfully Docks with Space Station

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[Asia Economy Reporter Hyunwoo Lee] The manned spacecraft 'Resilience' launched by the American private space exploration company SpaceX has safely arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) and successfully docked. With this successful launch, SpaceX's rocket is expected to be utilized in various exploration projects by NASA in the future.

According to aerospace specialized media Space.com on the 17th, the manned capsule Crew Dragon of Resilience successfully docked with the ISS. Earlier, the Resilience rocket was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:47 PM Eastern Time on the 15th, carrying four crew members: three NASA astronauts and one astronaut from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), arriving at the ISS after 27 hours.

This launch is expected to make SpaceX's rocket the primary rocket used in NASA's projects. Since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, NASA has relied entirely on Russian-made Soyuz rockets for transporting astronauts and cargo. SpaceX's success is also regarded as marking the official beginning of the era of private space transportation.

The astronauts who arrived at the ISS on this flight will stay for six months and conduct various space science experiments. According to NASA, these astronauts plan to carry out research on growing plants such as radish in different types of light and soil to prepare for future food production in space, as well as studies related to the next-generation spacesuits being developed by NASA.

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