Why astronauts prefer riding on SpaceX Dragon than Starliner & Soyuz...
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Why astronauts prefer riding on SpaceX Dragon than Starliner & Soyuz...
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"As Boeing Struggles To Fix Its Starliner, Elon Musk Is Eating Its Lunch In Space."
Yeah, this statement can be regarded as a humorous anecdote sourced from somewhere as Elon Musk hasn't gone to space so far, maybe he doesn't like it.
However, metaphorically thinking, this also holds undeniable truth. While SpaceX Dragon launched up to 10 crews into space, the Starliner Crewed Flight's last test is scheduled to fly no earlier than July 2023.
Especially, what SpaceX Dragon just did definitely make no one wants to fly on Starliner anymore...
How and why?
Find out every about this in today's episode of Alpha Tech:
A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying a retired astronaut, a wealthy adventurer, and two Saudi astronauts caught up with the International Space Station on Monday, wrapping up an automated 15-hour rendezvous with a picture-perfect docking, also a record-setting trip to the orbiting laboratory.
Catching up from behind and below, the spacecraft passed 1,300 feet below the lab complex, then looped up to a point directly above the forward Harmony module's space-facing port. From there, the craft moved in for docking at 9:12 a.m. EDT.
"It was a lovely ride ... it was the softest docking I've ever felt," Ax-2 commander Peggy Whitson radioed SpaceX flight controllers, referring to three earlier trips to the station aboard a space shuttle and Russian Soyuz ferry ships. "Very well done."
"We do aim for excellence," a controller replied. "And on behalf of SpaceX, it's been a pleasure working with you."
For SpaceX, the docking occurred 15 hours and 35 minutes after Whitson and her crewmates  —  John Shoffner and Saudi Space Commission astronauts Ali AlQarni and Rayyanah Barnawi  —  lifted off. It's the fastest trip for a crewed flight by SpaceX, the company said.
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