June 5, 2020
Crew Dragon Reaches the Station. What it Took to Replace the Space Shuttle
On Sunday, May 31st, 2020, a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley docked with the International Space Station. This was a tremendous accomplishment for SpaceX and NASA, giving the United States the capability of launching its own astronauts, and no longer relying on its Russian partners.
This was the 5th time that US astronauts went into orbit on a new kind of space vehicle, following in the footsteps of Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and the Space Shuttle.
You can watch the video here too:
Crew Dragon Reaches the Station. What it Took to Replace the Space Shuttle.mp4 (Vimeo)