Four Crew-1 astronauts who arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) last November. The photo was taken before spacewalking on the 1st of this month. Courtesy of NASA
Four astronauts of’Crew-1′ who arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) aboard SpaceX’s manned spacecraft on November 15 last year (local time) set the record for the longest stay in space on the 85th day of their stay on the ISS on the 7th. . On that day, NASA announced on Twitter that “SpaceX’s Crew-1 broke the US space sojourn record.”
This is based on a manned spacecraft mission launched from US land to the ISS. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the previous longest record was in 1974 on the first U.S. space station, Skylab 4, to stay for 1 hour and 16 minutes on 84 days.
The Crew-1 mission is evaluated to have opened the first civilian space transport era in that astronauts were sent into space using the rocket Falcon 9 developed by the private space company SpaceX and the manned capsule “Resilience” developed by SpaceX. received.
On the other hand, in the history of space development in the United States, there was a meaning that the US space shuttle’Atlantis’ was retired in 2011 and sent astronauts from its own land to space after nine years. As the space shuttle was retired, the US had no way to send astronauts to the ISS, so it used Russian Soyuz to send its own astronauts to the ISS.
On the other hand, it was the day of the Super Bowl, the largest sporting event and TV event in the United States, and the ISS also held an event passing over the stadium during the final of the American Pro Football (NFL) in Tampa, Florida.
The four Crew-1 astronauts are expected to return to Earth after completing the ISS mission in late April to early May. They board the Resilience they boarded when they got on the ISS and head for Earth, and the Resilience arrives at Earth in a splashdown manner where the entire capsule falls into the sea with astronauts on board.
Crew-1’s follow-up mission, Crew-2, is launched on April 20th. Four astronauts, including two NASA astronauts, one astronaut from the Japan Aerospace Development Organization (JAXA) and one astronaut from the European Space Agency (ESA), will be on board.