{"id":21928,"date":"2020-06-02T16:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=21928"},"modified":"2020-06-02T14:45:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T18:45:15","slug":"space-transport-roundup-june-2-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=21928","title":{"rendered":"Space transport roundup – June.2.2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sampling of recent articles, videos, and images dealing with space transport (find previous roundups here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

** A SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully placed a Dragon into orbit on Saturday with astronauts Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken<\/strong> on board.\u00a0 About 19 hours later, the spacecraft successfully docked to the Int. Space Station. This was the first time that a commercial, privately developed launch system put humans into orbit.<\/p>\n

As on the first launch attempt last Wednesday<\/a>,\u00a0 weather had been poor on Saturday but cleared up in the last hour before the scheduled liftoff time and the launch went very smoothly. The first stage booster landed safely as well on a platform at sea. During a live broadcast from the Dragon (see video below), the astronauts announced that the Dragon had been christened Endeavor.<\/p>\n

On Sunday morning the Dragon reached the Station and docked with it about 20 minutes earlier than expected. An hour or so later, the crew opened the hatch and entered the station to hugs from the three station occupants – NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy<\/a> and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin<\/a> and Ivan Vagner<\/a>.<\/p>\n