Heavy Falcon 9 rocket with Crew Dragon spacecraft from the site in the John Kennedy Space Center in Florida started to the International Space Station (ISS). Twitter broadcast leads Spacex.
On board the spacecraft there are astronauts Robert Shane Cymbro, Megan MacArthur (USA), Tom Sand (France) and Akikhiko HosiDe (Japan). This mission has become the second regular for Crew Dragon.
According to Spacex, after starting the first stage Falcon 9 made Successful landing on the platform of Course I Still Love You in the Atlantic Ocean. The company reports that Spacex has retained the first stage of the rocket used for the orbital launch.
In March “Interfax”, with reference to the head of the center of training of astronauts, Pavel Vlasov said that the Russian cosmonaut Sergey Korsakov in the near future can go to the International Space Station (ISS) on Crew Dragon.
In May 2020, the test launch of the heavy missile Falcon 9 with the Crew Dragon spacecraft with American astronauts on board to the ISS. The previous US time independently delivered people to near-earth orbit on July 8, 2011, when a reusable piloted spacecraft of ATLANTIS Space Shuttle program was started. After that, the Russian ships of the Soyuz series used to send people to the US ISS.