The Dragon capsule is carrying over 3000 kg of cargo including biological experiments and astronaut supplies as a part of the mission, and is expected to dock with the station Saturday.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk plans to use the Starship to shuttle as many as 12 people around the moon in 2023, land NASA astronauts as well and eventually settle explorers on Mars.
Despite many failures, missions to Mars continue because there is immense knowledge to be gleaned from the planet about our own existence and evolution.
SN9 managed a successful launch but failed to land properly, exploding during the test run. Meanwhile, the Elon Musk company is being investigated for FAA license violations.
People are shooting for the stars, but those who declined to fund the expansive plans of the nascent space mining industry were right about the fundamentals.
The nearly seven-minute flight was stable until the landing attempt when the Starship failed to slow down enough, video images provided by SpaceX showed.
Beyond becoming the US space agency’s first regular commercial launch, the Crew-1 mission is also the first human orbital flight licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration.
The trip, 3 months after SpaceX completed a trial run, will open a new era in human spaceflight for NASA as commercial firms start dominating missions in low-Earth orbit.
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Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
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