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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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