SpaceX's fifth crewed launch takes off

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The spacecraft carrying three NASA astronauts and one European astronaut will maneuver close to the International Space Station (ISS) all day on Wednesday, and it will be docked there later on Thursday, starting A six-month scientific and research mission.

The stop time is set at 7:10 p.m. EST on Thursday night.

The mission, called Crew-3, is the fourth mission of the cooperation between SpaceX and NASA. The mission is to regularly visit the International Space Station to ensure that the 21-year-old space station is adequately staffed. Since its space shuttle program was retired in 2011, NASA has been hoping to exercise more control over this, thereby making Russia the only country capable of providing transportation to the International Space Station.

But SpaceX’s Crew Dragon is a far cry from another space shuttle.

 

At a press conference earlier this week, NASA’s commercial crew project manager described the “inspiration” mission as a “gift” because it caused a problem with a key component on the Crew Dragon spacecraft, the toilet. Become the focus of attention, so this problem can be resolved in the future NASA mission.

 

"There is a urine storage tank for storing urine [and] a tube is disconnected or degummed," William Gerstenmeier said.

The problem also prevented a group of astronauts from using the onboard toilets of their crew Dragon spacecraft on their way back to Earth from the International Space Station on Monday.

The launch of Crew-3 was carried out after another group of four astronauts returned from the International Space Station on Monday, ending the mission known as Crew-2.

Both flights were carried out while SpaceX and NASA were working to solve the toilet design problem on SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule. This problem leaves Crew-2 astronauts without bathroom options during the 9-hour return flight from the International Space Station on Monday.

NASA and SpaceX stated that the issue was resolved on the space capsule used for the Crew-3 mission on Wednesday.

SpaceX originally planned to launch this mission called Crew-3 on Halloween, but because of the bad weather over the Atlantic Ocean may affect rescue operations, if the rocket catches fire and forces the astronauts to take emergency measures, the lift-off will be delayed and landed in the ocean. If something goes wrong, the Crew Dragon can throw the crew to safety, which is one of the reasons the space agency calls it one of the safest spacecraft ever.

According to NASA, the flight was subsequently delayed further due to "medical issues involving a Crew-3 astronaut." The space agency stated that the issue is neither a medical emergency nor is it related to the new coronavirus, but declined to provide more details.

 

Meet the Crew-3 astronauts

 November 2021 On Wednesday, the 10th, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Armstrong Operations and Inspection Building 39A will board the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-3 mission launch. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission is the third crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 rockets to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s commercial crew program. Chari, Marshburn, Barron, and Maurer are scheduled to launch at 9:03 PM. EST, from the 39A launch site of the Kennedy Space Center. Image source: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

 

The ISS has for two a long time hosted astronauts from all over the world to behavior scientific research. The area station is not like any laboratory in the world — in the microgravity environment, bodily and organic phenomena are not bogged down by means of the Earth's pull. So, doing the equal scan on the st

ation this is been completed on the floor can supply scientists a higher crucial appreciation of how some thing works.

The lookup the Crew-3 astronauts will oversee consists of an strive to develop a "perfect crystal" to beautify our appreciation of organic processes, a take a look at of the affect of food regimen on astronaut health, and the trying out of a smartphone video practise sensor for guidance, navigation, and manipulate of the Astrobee free-flying robot.