[:ja]NASAとSpaceX社が宇宙飛行士2人を乗せた新型宇宙船Crew DragonをFalcon 9ロケットで打ち上げISSとのドッキングに成功しました。米国の宇宙船による有人飛行はスペースシャトルが引退した2011年以来9年ぶりで、この間、ISSへの飛行士の輸送手段は露ソユーズ宇宙船だけでした。また、民間企業が開発主体となった宇宙船によるISSへの有人輸送は初です。
参考文献： NASA’s Tweet, Ivan Wagner’s Tweet, Jessica Meir’s Tweet
地球俯瞰画像を見る： LiVEARTH
[Earthview Wonders] No.1038: Crew Dragon
New spaceship Crew Dragon, which was developed by SpaceX and NASA and launched by Falcon 9, successfully made docking with ISS. The milestone flight is historic in that both the first time human travel on a commercially developed craft and the first time American astronauts have flown from U.S. soil since the space shuttle program ended in 2011.
Reference: NASA’s Tweet, Ivan Wagner’s Tweet, Jessica Meir’s Tweet
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:en][Earthview Wonders] No.1038: Crew Dragon
New spaceship Crew Dragon, which was developed by SpaceX and NASA and launched by Falcon 9, successfully made docking with ISS. The milestone flight is historic in that both the first time human travel on a commercially developed craft and the first time American astronauts have flown from U.S. soil since the space shuttle program ended in 2011.
Reference: NASA’s Tweet, Ivan Wagner’s Tweet, Jessica Meir’s Tweet
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:]