SpaceX’s Crew-1 astronauts broke the US space record for 47 years
Michael McCann,
Four astronauts live on board International Space Station The International Space Station broke a record 47 after spending the longest time in space with a crew launched from US soil.
The astronauts, known collectively as Crew-1 – Michael Hopkins, Shannon Walker, Victor Glover of NASA, and Suichi Noguchi of Japan Space Agency (JAXA) – were the first completed mission crew to be placed in orbit by a private company. . (A smaller test mission for the International Space Station, consisting of only two astronauts who spent a short time in space, preceded Crew-1 by several months.) Crew-1 arrived aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon orbit launched by the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 15, sister site to Live Science I mentioned Space.com earlier.
