SpaceX has successfully launched the crew -8 mission in collaboration with NASA recently at Kennedy space center in florida.
SpaceX and NASA has launched a crew of four international space station in the Dragon spacecraft, Due to poor weather conditions, twice they have cancelled it and marking its third attempt. SpaceX’s eighth crew rotation mission in the ISS with NASA’S commercial crew program.
The Mission involved NASA astronauts are Commander Mattew Dominick, Pilot Michael Barratt and Mission specialist Jeanette Epps and Alexander Grebenkin, a Russian Roscomos Cosmonaut. Michael Barratt would be making his third visit to the ISS with this mission.
The four- Member crew will spend six months at the ISS and they return to earth in the fall.
SpaceX used “reusable, two-stage rocket “Falcon 9 to launch the dragon spacecraft. After detaching from Dragon, the Falcon 9 will land at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
At the space station, administrators discovered a small air leak. Joel Montalbano ISS program Manager stated at a crew -8 Mission briefing, “It’s not an impact to crew-8, but I didn’t want anybody to be surprised.
The mission lifted off after the engineers concluded that a small crack on the hatch seal wouldn’t be an issue in launching the mission at 10:53pm on Sunday. Mission crew members cheered on the ground, as the first-stage booster separated from Dragon and the spacecraft moved towards space.
The ISS crew will perform over 200 science experiments, often referred to as a “floating Laboratory.” These experiments are a part of the long-term mission to prepare humanity for long-term stays in space.
According to the source taking stem cells to space to study their effects on degenerative disease. This involves observing the cellular impact of microgravity and ultraviolet radiation on plants.
The crew will test pressure cuffs on legs to check whether they help relieve health problems. Astronauts will observe microalgae can help remove carbon dioxide from the air, providing food and oxygen for them.
SpaceX undertook almost a hundred launches. Transporter-10 mission will be their next launch. According the official website Spacex’s slated that, Transporter-10 is SpaceX’s 10th dedicated smallsat rideshare mission. There will be 53 payloads on this flight, including CubeSats,MicroSats and a hosted payload”.
