SpaceX has launched four astronauts to the International Space Station, two days after bringing another crew home. The three Americans and one German should reach the space station in less than 24 hours.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon capsule lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021.
“It was a great ride, better than we imagined,” mission commander Raja Chari said after the spacecraft reached orbit. That averages out to 10 people per year since Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering flight in 1961, Maurer noted. A balky parachute during Monday’s descent had SpaceX engineers poring over the data, before giving the go-ahead for Wednesday’s launch. One of the four chutes opened more than a minute late, a problem seen in testing and well within safety limits, SpaceX officials said Tuesday.
— Kayla Barron, 34, a Navy lieutenant commander from Richland, Washington. She was among the first women to serve as submarine warfare officers. Added to the flight in May, she’s No. 601 in space.
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