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SpaceX has just completed the fastest Dragon astronaut trip to the space station in history.
After a smooth arrival with four Crew-4 astronauts aboard on April 27, 2022, SpaceX's Crew Dragon Freedom is seen docked at the space-facing port on the International Space Station's Harmony module. (Image courtesy of NASA TV) SpaceX has just set a new record for the quickest Dragon astronaut flight ever. On Wednesday (April 27), Elon Musk's SpaceX launched four Crew-4 astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA in less than 16 hours, the shortest flight time since SpaceX began crewed flights in 2020. "This is the quickest launch to dock that we've done," NASA's Commercial Crew Program manager Steve Stitch told reporters after the launch early Wednesday. "It takes about the same amount of time to travel from New York to Singapore, so it's kind of interesting." SpaceX has just set a new record for the quickest Dragon astronaut flight ever. In comparison, SpaceX's first crewed flight for NASA, the Demo-2 mission in May 2020, to...
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