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 by Staff Writers Washington (Sputnik) Jul 09, 2020
NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, who piloted the Crew Dragon, International Space Station Commander Chris Cassidy, and Flight Engineer Anatoly Ivanishin performed the one-hour habitability test of the SpaceX Crew Dragon, NASA said in a press release. "The crew will arrange the cabin to suit the four-space residents and report their comfort levels to engineers on the ground", the release said on Wednesday. The test aimed at assessing the Crew Dragon's habitability ahead of the SpaceX Crew-1 mission planned for later this year, NASA added. According to the release, the NASA astronauts also made ultrasound eye scans, conducted microfluid studies and did orbital plumbing work. The two cosmonauts, including Flight Engineer Ivan Vagner, performed Russian space research and tested Soyuz crew ship communications gear. NASA plans to use the Crew Dragon capsule to shuttle up to seven passengers to and from the International Space Station, according to SpaceX. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has expressed hopes that Russians and Americans will fly together on future launches from the United States, just as Americans have joined Russians on Soyuz to reach the orbiting laboratory since the Space Shuttle's retirement in 2011. On 31 May, a Crew Dragon 2 reusable spacecraft with Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley on board was successfully delivered by a Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station, completing the first crewed extraterrestrial mission from the US in nine years. Source: RIA Novosti
SpaceX launches next-generation GPS satellite from Florida Washington DC (UPI) Jun 30, 2020 Elon Musk's SpaceX launched the U.S. Space Force's third next-generation navigation satellite for the Global Positioning System from Florida on Tuesday. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 4:10 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 40 into a partly cloudy sky as temperatures reached the mid-90s. The first-stage booster, which likely will be reused, successfully landed on a SpaceX ship, Just Read the Instructions, in the Atlantic Ocean. The satellite deployed ... read more
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