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  • The SpaceX has become the first private rocket company to send astronauts to space.
  • The SpaceX astronaut mission completed its first journey as the astronauts in the Crew Dragon Capsule entered the International Space Station (ISS).
  • The SpaceX Company sent Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to space through a Falcon 9 rocket.
  • The mission will end the reliance of NASA on Russian space rockets.
  • SpaceX was the first private company in the world to return rockets back to the earth.
  • The astronauts have named the commercial spacecraft after one of the retired winged orbiters, ‘Endeavour’.
  • The International Space Station (ISS) is a modular space station (habitable artificial satellite) in low Earth orbit.
  • It is the largest artificial object in space and the largest satellite in low Earth orbit, regularly visible to the naked eye from Earth's surface.
  • The ISS circles the Earth in roughly 93 minutes, completing 15.5 orbits per day.
  • The ISS programme is a multi-national collaborative project between five participating space agencies:
    • NASA (United States),
    • Roscosmos (Russia),
    • JAXA (Japan),
    • ESA (Europe),
    • CSA (Canada).

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