SpaceX Dragon Breaks Space Shuttle Records Written 12 June 2023
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SPACE reported that SpaceX Dragon “has set multiple American spaceflight records during its latest mission, a robotic resupply run to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA that lifted off on Monday (June 5) and arrived at the orbiting lab Tuesday morning (June 6).” This is the 38th mission “to the ISS to date for a SpaceX capsule, besting the 37 such flights that NASA’s space shuttle orbiters racked up, SpaceX noted on Twitter Wednesday (June 7).” SpaceX’s Dragon 2 “is the latest iteration of the reusable capsule, which SpaceX began flying in 2020.” Crew Dragon “has now flown 10 astronaut missions, most of them six-month trips to the ISS for NASA.”
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