SpaceX’s astronaut-riding Dragon arrives at space station

  • Date: 31-May-2020
  • Source: Arab News
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SpaceX’s astronaut-riding Dragon arrives at space station

SpaceX Falcon 9lifts off from Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on May 30, 2020 .. NASA has to decide how long Hurley and Behnken will spend at the space station, somewhere between one and four months. CAPE CANAVERAL: SpaceX delivered two astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Sunday, following up a historic liftoff with an equally smooth docking in another first for Elon Musk's company.. With test pilots Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken poised to take over manual control if necessary, the SpaceX Dragon capsule pulled up to the station and docked automatically, no assistance needed.. In a show-and-tell earlier Sunday, the astronauts gave a quick tour of the Dragon's sparkling clean insides, quite spacious for a capsule.. Tremor was going to join Earthy, a plush globe delivered to the space station on last year's test flight of a crew-less crew Dragon.. Even so, getting the two astronauts safely to orbit and then the space station had everyone breathing huge sighs of relief.. At least 13 police officers were injured in Philadelphia , and at least four police vehicles were set on fire.. In New York City, dangerous confrontations flared repeatedly