• News
  • Sport
  • TV
  • Radio
  • Education
  • TV Licences
  • Contact Us

For all official information and updates regarding COVID-19, visit the South African Department of Health's website at www.sacoronavirus.co.za

No Result
View All Result
  • SOUTH AFRICA
  • POLITICS
  • BUSINESS
  • SPORT
  • AFRICA
  • WORLD
  • SCI-TECH
  • LIFESTYLE
  • FEATURES
  • OPINION
Home Sci-tech

Latest astronaut crew of four welcomed aboard International Space Station

12 November 2021, 10:00 AM  |
Reuters Reuters |  @SABCNews
European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Matthias Maurer of Germany, NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, and Kayla Barron wave while departing the crew quarters for launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a mission to the International Space Station at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.

European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Matthias Maurer of Germany, NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, and Kayla Barron wave while departing the crew quarters for launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a mission to the International Space Station at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.

Image: Reuters

European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Matthias Maurer of Germany, NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, and Kayla Barron wave while departing the crew quarters for launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a mission to the International Space Station at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.

Four astronauts, three from NASA and one from the European Space Agency, arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday (November 11) and docked their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule with the orbiting laboratory to begin a six-month science mission.

The rendezvous came about 21 hours after the team and its capsule were launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Wednesday (November 10) night, following a string of weather delays that postponed the liftoff for a week and a half.

The docking took place about 6:30 p.m. EST (2330 GMT) while the Crew Dragon vehicle, dubbed Endurance, and the space station were flying about 260 miles (420 km) above the eastern Caribbean Sea, according to NASA.

The Endurance crew consists of three American NASA astronauts – flight commander Raja Chari, 44, mission pilot Tom Marshburn, 61, and mission specialist Kayla Barron, 34 – as well as German astronaut Matthias Maurer, 51, a mission specialist from the European Space Agency.

On arrival, the crew took inventory, conducted standard leak checks and pressurized the space between the spacecraft in preparation for opening the hatch to the space station about two hours later.
A live NASA video feed from the station showed the new arrivals floating headfirst through a padded passageway from their capsule into the orbiting outpost.

They were welcomed aboard with hugs from the three current space station occupants – Russian cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Oleg Novitskiy and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, who shared a Soyuz flight with his Roscosmos crewmates to the complex.

The space station, spanning the size of an American football field end to end, has been continuously occupied since November 2000, operated by an international partnership of five space agencies from 15 countries.

An international crew of at least seven people typically lives and works aboard the platform while traveling 5 miles (8 km) per second, orbiting Earth about every 90 minutes.

Share article
Tags: NASAInternational Space StationSpaceX
Previous Post

Travis Scott asks victims of Astroworld stampede to contact him for help

Next Post

Parliament’s presiding officers convey their condolences to FW de Klerk’s family

Related Posts

Handout image shows a Tara Air DHC-6 Twin Otter, tail number 9N-AET, in Simikot, Nepal December 1, 2021. Picture taken December 1, 2021. Madhu Thapa/Handout via REUTERS

Nepal plane goes missing in bad weather with 22 on board

29 May 2022, 11:37 AM
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) treatment pill Paxlovid is seen in a box, at Misericordia hospital in Grosseto, Italy, February 8, 2022.

U.S. doctors reconsider Pfizer’s Paxlovid for lower-risk COVID patients

29 May 2022, 3:47 AM

CORONAVIRUS: Your daily update

28 May 2022, 9:23 PM
This is an abstract representation of the virus.

DRC records over 1200 cases of monkeypox, with 58 deaths since beginning of 2022

28 May 2022, 4:32 PM
A woman holds a mock-up vial labeled "Monkeypox vaccine" and medical syringe in this illustration taken, May 25, 2022.

Monkeypox can be contained if we act now, WHO says

28 May 2022, 3:43 AM
An employee of the vaccine company Bavarian Nordic works in a laboratory of the company in Martinsried near Munich, Germany, May 24, 2022

EU in talks for common purchase of vaccine, antiviral against monkeypox

27 May 2022, 5:45 PM
Next Post
File image of the South African Parliament in Cape Town.

Parliament's presiding officers convey their condolences to FW de Klerk's family

Most Viewed

  • 24hrs
  • Week
  • Month
  • EMS says fire at Bree Street Taxi Rank in Johannesburg has been extinguished
  • The public has until 18 May to make submissions on Icasa’s regulations for extension of expiry period for data, airtime
  • ANC NEC expected to hold a special meeting on Sunday
  • Eastern Cape flood victims plead for support as access to food, services remains difficult
  • Amathole Regional Secretary elated to have corruption charges against him dropped
  • Caster Semenya offered to show her body to officials to prove she was female
  • Three Heidelberg brothers die after allegedly consuming energy drink given by their father
  • Gunman kills 18 children, 3 adults in Texas elementary school – Officials
  • Tributes pour in for SA actor Jamie Bartlett
  • Multiple car crash on the N3 in Pietermaritzburg leaves 16 dead, others injured
  • SA may be home to world’s oldest person
  • Cosatu’s May Day celebrations descended into chaos, proceedings halted
  • Suspect arrested in connection with Hillary Gardee’s murder
  • [WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT] Nigerian student beaten, burned to death over ‘blasphemous’ text messages
  • Meyiwa family breaks silence over Advocate Teffo’s arrest

LATEST

South African bank notes featuring an image of former South African President Nelson Mandela are displayed at an office in Johannesburg.
  • South Africa

18-year-old Durban woman defrauded of inheritance left by late father


  • South Africa

Cape Town invites public participation into its affordable housing aspirations


File image: A gavel and a pair of handcuffs are pictured.
  • South Africa

Law enforcement commended for arrest of corrupt license official in Port St Johns


A substation in Gravett lies vandalised and damaged.
  • South Africa

Eskom’s technical employees become a target for criminals


Handout image shows a Tara Air DHC-6 Twin Otter, tail number 9N-AET, in Simikot, Nepal December 1, 2021. Picture taken December 1, 2021. Madhu Thapa/Handout via REUTERS
  • Sci-tech

Nepal plane goes missing in bad weather with 22 on board


Russia's Daniil Medvedev celebrates after winning his third round match against Serbia's Miomir Kecmanovic, 28 May 2022.
  • Sport

Medvedev pushing for return to top of world rankings


Weather

  • About the SABC
  • Contact Us
  • Jobs
  • Advertise
  • Disclaimer
  • Site Map

SABC © 2022

No Result
View All Result
  • SOUTH AFRICA
  • POLITICS
  • BUSINESS
  • SPORT
  • AFRICA
  • WORLD
  • SCI-TECH
  • LIFESTYLE
  • FEATURES
  • OPINION

© 2022

Previous Travis Scott asks victims of Astroworld stampede to contact him for help
Next Parliament’s presiding officers convey their condolences to FW de Klerk’s family