SpaceX Crew Dragon docks with ISS in record time with multinational crew
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SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, carrying a multinational crew including Russian cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov, successfully docked with the International Space Station after a record-breaking seven-hour and 55-minute flight from Cape Canaveral, marking the fastest crewed journey to the ISS in history.
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Why It Matters
The Crew Dragon spacecraft is part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, which partners with private companies like SpaceX to transport astronauts to the International Space Station. This mission, Crew-13, continues the routine rotation of ISS crews.
NEW YORK, October 2. /TASS/. The Crew Dragon manned spacecraft of US company SpaceX, whose multinational crew includes Russian cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov, has docked with the International Space Station (ISS), according to NASA broadcast on YouTube.
The docking took place at 11:05 p.m. GMT on Thursday.
The spacecraft was launched atop the Falcon 9 carrier rocket from Cape Canaveral at 3:10 p.m. GMT. Therefore, the flight to the orbital station took seven hours and 55 minutes, which makes it the fastest journey to the ISS in the history of manned spaceflights.
The Crew 13 mission includes Teteryatnikov, NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk. They are expected to spend around six months aboard the ISS.
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AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
The crew will conduct approximately six months of scientific research and station maintenance aboard the ISS
Very likely · Within months
Regular crew rotations will continue via Commercial Crew Program spacecraft
Likely · Within months
Open Questions
- What specific scientific experiments will the crew conduct during their six-month stay?
- How does this flight duration compare to previous Crew Dragon missions?
- Are there any planned spacewalks or external maintenance tasks scheduled for this expedition?
