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Meet the SpaceX Crew-2, a manned mission that landed on the ISS last Saturday
SpaceX Falcon 9
SpaceX Crew-2
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Gabriela Ramos
4/26/2021
Last Friday, April 23, the Space X Falcon 9 rocket took off with a crew of four astronauts on board, en route to the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft landed at the station on Saturday, 24.
SpaceX Falcon 9
SpaceX Crew-2
Divulgação/NASA
The mission, dubbed Crew-2, is the second manned flight of a Crew Dragon and the third manned orbital flight. Endeavor was used, the same capsule used by Demo-2 and the same booster used by the Crew-1 mission, which represented savings for the NASA project.
The astronauts on board this mission are spacecraft commander Shane Kimbrough, pilot Megan McArthur, both Americans, and mission experts Akihiko Hoshide, from Japan, and Matthias Maurer, from Germany; all veterans.
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Gabriela Ramos
Gabriela is the latest addition to the editorial team of our website, having provided us with her solid background in editing, publishing and photography, and her interest and training in aviation history and historiography. His good taste and common sense and great cleverness and sagacity in the selection of themes and materials greatly enriched our vocabulary and narrative style. Gabriela brought unusual predicates and came to stay, helping to point the way of success of our portal.
   
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