Misja SpaceX Crew-13 na Międzynarodową Stację Kosmiczną (ISS) została zaplanowana z najszybszym czasem dolotu w historii amerykańskich załogowych lotów kosmicznych, wynoszącym około 7 godzin i 50 minut
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The mission launched on the 68th anniversary of NASA, and will be the fastest American spaceflight to the International Space Station, clocking in at just 7 hours and 50 minutes.
"Yeah, we we got lucky this time. The space station was in a opportune spot in space, and the orbital mechanics, the physics of it all, worked out for it to be the the shortest launch to docking time we've had to date, under eight hours," said Julianna Scheiman, SpaceX's director of the NASA Science and Dragon programs. "That's not to say it couldn't happen again, and if we were to put space station in exactly the right spot for the right launch it could be this or even shorter durations, but this is close to the fastest it could be though."
The record for the fastest crewed flight to the ISS stands at 3 hours, 3 minutes, and was achieved by a Russian Soyuz MS-17 crew on Oct. 14, 2020. That mission launched NASA astronaut Kate Rubins (on her birthday, no less) to the ISS alongside cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov.
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The Dragon spacecraft finally docked with the ISS about 19 hours after launch.
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