For the first time, three American and one Japanese astronaut reached the International Space Station in orbit at an altitude of 408 km in low Earth orbit using a rocket and a spacecraft (capsule) made by a private space company.
This is the second time that SpaceX has provided services to NASA. The US space agency NASA has described the occasion as historic, saying that for the first time, a private company has been certified by NASA to build rockets and send astronauts into the Lower Earth Orbit (LOE).
Among the astronauts are Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker from the United States, while Sui Shi Noguchi is an experienced expert from the Japanese space agency Jaxa. Suu Kyi has previously flown from the Soyuz and US space shuttles, making her the only expert to reach orbit in three different space rides.
In just 12 minutes, a capsule called Dragon was delivered to its destination by a Falcon rocket, and in another way, the usefulness of Elon Musk's company 'SpaceX' has come to the fore. The company has previously demonstrated a number of disease-preventing brain chips in pigs, but astronauts have dubbed the Falcon capsule "resilience".
The team will join Russian and American astronauts already on the International Space Station. Thus, a total of seven people will do a lot of research and experiments together in a micro-environment.
It should be noted that NASA has signed a three billion dollar agreement with SpaceX under which a taxi service for astronauts will be developed, tested and demonstrated. The agreement also includes the delivery of ISS to astronauts six times.
