The next team of four people to live and work on board the International Space Station, left on Friday from the Kennedy Space Center of NASA in Florida and focused on the massive circle complex for a job for a planned stay of six to eight months.
Commander Zena Cardman van Space Deputies leads the mission, designated crew-11, which increased on Friday at 11:43 am Edt (15:43 UTC) from the Space Coast of Florida. Sitting on her right within the crew dragon of SpaceX Adventure Capsule was veteran NASA Astronaut Mike Fincke, who served as a pilot of the vehicle. Flanking the commander and pilot were two mission specialists: Kimiya Yui from Japan and Oleg Platonov of Russia.
Cardman and her crew members drove a Falcon 9 -rocket from the launch cushion and went northeast on the Atlantic Ocean, in line with the job of the space station to determine the stage for an automated docking in the early Saturday complex.
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See you LZ-1
The reusable first phase of the Falcon 9 was separate from the first phase and returned to a propulsion in landing zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, a few miles south of the launch site. This was the 53rd and final rocket landing on LZ-1 since SpaceX received the first intact recovery of a Falcon 9-booster there on December 21, 2015.
On most missions from SpaceX countries Falcon 9 boosters on the offshore drone of the company hundreds of kilometers down from the launch site. For launches with sufficient fuel margin, the first phase can return to a onshore landing. But the Space Force, which rents out the landing zones to SpaceX, wants to convert the LZ-1 site into a launch location for another rocket company.
SpaceX will move onto rocket landings to new landing zones that are built next to the two Falcon 9 launch cushions in the Spacport of Florida. Landingzone 2, located next to the landing zone 1, will also be dismantled and returned to the Space Force as soon as SpaceX activates the new landing locations.
“We work together with the Cape and the people of the Kennedy Space Center to find out the right time to make that transition from landing zone 2 in the future,” says Bill Gerstensmaier, vice -president of Build and Flight Resticability. “But I think we will stay at least in the short term on landing zone 2, and then a while, and then look at the right time to move to the other areas.”
