Nasa delayed the launch of the SpaceX Crew-1 mission until Mid-November which was originally scheduled for October 31st, the planned six-month mission was delayed to allow time to resolve issues with the first-stage engine gas generators on the Falcon 9 rocket.
The mission will bring back three, NASA astronauts and an astronaut from Japan’s JAXA space agency to the International Space Station (Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, plus Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi) will be aboard SpaceX’s first operational crewed mission to the ISS.
SpaceX will be doing 6 missions with Nasa of sending astronauts to ISS under NASA’s Commercial Crew Programme.
SpaceX’s first Crew Dragon flight, the DM-2, or Demo-2, was a test mission that took NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to International Space Station.
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