A Russian Soyuz rocket is now scheduled to launch three astronauts toward the ISS on Saturday (March 23), two days after a rare abort scuttled its first try.
"Indeed, we have a two-day rendezvous scheme. But honestly, everything that happens is for the best. I've already made sure of this. It will be a great experience for me. We will spend two days in the spacecraft and we will have more time to adapt to weightlessness, more time to look at our beautiful Earth. When we arrive at the station, I am sure that we will feel good," Marina Vasilevskaya said.
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NASA just approved the SpaceX Crew-2 launch: Date and Details
Chris Davies - Apr 16, 2021, 10:36am CDT
NASA has given the green-light for the SpaceX Crew-2 mission to launch in a week’s time, it’s been confirmed, with four astronauts after headed out to the International Space Station. The decision was made after a Flight Readiness Review (FRR) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, which decided the record-setting launch was safe to go ahead.
It’ll be the second showing for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, which looks to outsource the agency’s space flights to private companies. SpaceX successfully demonstrated that could work with the first Crew Dragon mission, Crew-1, which launched in November 2020 and safely reached the International Space Station complete with four new astronauts.
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