But the absolute record owned by the Russians is still very far away.
SpaceX set its own record for the longest flight to the ISS / Photo: REUTERS, Collage: Today
Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX has set a new record for the fastest astronaut flight on its Crew Dragon capsule. Before that, SpaceX set a record for launching one rocket.
The company launched four Crew-4 astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA in less than 16 hours, the shortest flight time since SpaceX began crewed flights in 2020.
“This is the fastest docking launch we’ve ever done. It’s about the time it takes to get from New York to Singapore, so it’s pretty exciting,” said NASA Commercial Crew Program Manager Steve Stitch.
Note that the launch was carried out on the new Crew Dragon capsule, called Freedom. The total flight time was 15 hours and 45 minutes.
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By comparison, SpaceX’s first manned flight for NASA, the Demo-2 mission in May 2020, took about 19 hours to get to the station, while its latest Crew-3 flight for NASA took nearly a full day.
While the Crew-4 Dragon flight was SpaceX’s fastest flight to the station, it was not the fastest crewed flight ever.
That title still belongs to the Russian spacecraft Soyuz, which entered the Guinness Book of Records in October 2020 after delivering cosmonauts to the station in 3 hours and 3 minutes, writes Space.com.
Source: Segodnya
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