{"id":130620,"date":"2023-03-03T12:28:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T06:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=130620"},"modified":"2023-03-03T12:28:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T06:58:43","slug":"spacex-launches-nasa-crew-6-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/spacex-launches-nasa-crew-6-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches NASA Crew-6 mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SpaceX launches NASA Crew-6 mission:<\/strong> NASA&#8217;s Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station was launched into orbit by SpaceX, with a Russian cosmonaut and a United Arab Emirates astronaut joining two NASA crewmates for the flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SpaceX launch vehicle, consisting of a Falcon 9 rocket topped with an autonomously operated Crew Dragon capsule called Endeavour, lifted off at 12:34 a.m. EST (0534 GMT) from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-february-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">February 2023 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Crew-6 mission:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mission will send two US astronauts, one Russian Cosmonaut, and one UAE astronaut into space. This is Crew Dragon\u2019s fourth flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Previous flights of Crew Dragon were as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Demo-2 Crew Test flight<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Crew-2 flight in 2021<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Private Axiom Mission-1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The landing site of the mission is the Atlantic Ocean. It is a part of the Commercial Crew Program of NASA. The program provides crew transportation services, that is, carrying cargo and astronauts from and to ISS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Significance of Crew Dragon :<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a spacecraft that can be reused. It transports cargo to and from the International Space Station. Previously, the crew dragon was referred to as the Dragon rider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Need of Crew-6 Launch:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Crew-6 launch comes after Russia is preparing to send Soyuz MS-23 to replace Soyuz MS-22. Due to a coolant leak in Soyuz MS-22, the astronauts were stranded in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX launches NASA Crew-6 mission: NASA&#8217;s Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station was launched into orbit by SpaceX, with a Russian cosmonaut and a United Arab Emirates astronaut joining two NASA crewmates for the flight. The SpaceX launch vehicle, consisting of a Falcon 9 rocket topped with an autonomously operated Crew Dragon capsule called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":130621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5004],"tags":[68],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-130620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-march-2023","tag-science-technology-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130622,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130620\/revisions\/130622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130620"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=130620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}