SpaceX Launches Second Crew To Space Station But There’s Even More Exciting Space Stuff To Be Excited About – Gizmodo Australia

Yesterday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a Crew Dragon capsule with four astronauts to the International Space Station, the second flight of a crewed Crew Dragon and the official first operational (as in, not a test) flight of the spacecraft. This is a very big deal, not just because this represents the first regular private, commercially developed regular-use orbital spacecraft, but because it frees NASA up to do what it was really born to do: explore.
The Crew Dragon is, really, a space taxi….

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