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Four astronauts live on board International space station The ISS broke a record of 47 after spending the most time in space with a crew launched from American soil.
The astronauts, collectively known as Crew-1 – Michael Hopkins, Shannon Walker, Victor Glover of NASA and Soichi Noguchi of the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) – were the first full-fledged mission crew to be put in orbit by a private company. . (A smaller test mission for the International Space Station, consisting of just two astronauts who spent little time in space, preceded Crew-1 by several months.) Crew-1 arrived aboard a SpaceX orbit. Crew Dragon was launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 15, a sister site of Live Science I mentioned Space.com earlier.
On Sunday February 7, the astronauts of Crew 1 took their place in the history books after spending their 85th day aboard the International Space Station. According to NASA.
The previous 84-day record was set in 1974 by the crew of the Skylab 4, the last mission aboard NASA’s first space station. Skylab. Since then, other record-breaking astronauts have all taken part in missions launched from other countries. SpaceX’s Crew-1 mission is the first manned mission to be launched from the United States since the space shuttle’s withdrawal in 2011, NASA said.
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NASA took to Twitter to celebrate the feat, which coincided with Super Bowl LV in Tampa, Florida.
Rise n ‘shine, time to play! #SuperBowlSunday Space Highlights: 🏆SpaceX Crew-1NASA_Astronauts breaks US space record for US space ~ 45 minutes after kickoff, Space_Station flies over #SBLV Tampa, Florida See Details: https://t.co / 5zqMM5imGV pic .twitter. com / oE1yMtO9XrFebruary 7, 2021
The astronauts on Crew 1 will almost certainly extend their record once they complete their six-month stay on the International Space Station. The next SpaceX manned mission is expected to begin in April, when Crew-2 goes into orbit to replace its predecessors. According to Space.com.
Originally posted on Live Science.
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