A SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on August 27, adding four new members to the station's current crew of seven. The spacecraft docked autonomously after being launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 3:27 a.m. EDT on August 26.
The new arrivals include NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov. They will be conducting scientific experiments focusing on astronauts' sleep physiology and collecting microbial samples from within the ISS.
What is the Dragon spacecraft?
The Dragon spacecraft can transport a maximum of 7 people to and from Earth's orbit and beyond. It's the only active craft capable of bringing back considerable cargo, and the first privately-owned one to carry humans to the ISS.
This comes days after India's Chandrayaan-3 made its inaugural moonwalk and weeks following Russia's Lunar 25 failure.
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