It was the quickest-ever crewed Dragon flight to the orbiting lab
SpaceX's Crew Dragon Freedom is seen docked at the space-facing port on the International Space Station's Harmony module after a smooth arrival with four Crew-4 astronauts aboard on April 27, 2022.
The Crew-4 team will join seven astronauts already on the ISS — NASA's Thomas Marshburn, Kayla Barron and Raja Chari, ESA's Matthias Maurer and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov. Watkins is making history as theBut the orbiting lab's population will drop again soon. Marshburn, Barron, Chari and Maurer — the astronauts of SpaceX's, which launched last November — are scheduled to depart for Earth in their own Dragon on May 4 or thereabouts.
As its name suggests, Crew-4 is the fourth operational astronaut mission that SpaceX is flying to the ISS for NASA. Its arrival at the station was the second that SpaceX has pulled off in less than three weeks. On April 9, the Dragon capsule Endeavour reached the orbiting complex with an all-private crew — the first time this had ever been done. Endeavour was flying
, a mission organized by the Houston-based company Axiom Space, and three of its four crewmembers were paying customers. The fourth was former NASA astronaut, and current Axiom employee, Michael López-Alegría.
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