A SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts including Indian-origin Raja Chari docked with the International Space Station on November 11, 2021.
- This mission known as Crew-3 is part of Nasa’s multibillion-dollar partnership with SpaceX, signed after the Space Shuttle program ended in 2011 and aimed at restoring US capacity to carry out human spaceflight, rather than depend on Russia for links to the ISS.
- Raja Chari, Kayla Barron and Tom Marshburn of the United States and Matthias Maurer of Germany are part of the NASA-SpaceX mission called “Crew-3”.
- They traveled to space aboard a Crew Dragon capsule fixed to a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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