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Nasa SpaceX launch: Astronaut crew primed for ‘routine’ flight – Yahoo News Australia
Nasa says we’re now in the new “operational” era of commercial astronaut taxi services.
Nasa and its private launch services provider SpaceX are getting ready to send four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).
The crew will ride to orbit in a Dragon capsule atop a Falcon-9 rocket.
It will be only the second time that this launch system has been used to transport people.
It follows a successful demo flight conducted back in May, which marked the resumption of astronaut missions from US soil after a gap of nine years.
The Falcon-Dragon combo is due to depart the Kennedy…
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