SPACE X’S SPACECRAFT SUCCESSFULLY

SPACE X’S SPACECRAFT SUCCESSFULLY

• SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft with two NASA astronauts successfully docked with Internationals Space Station.
• NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley
• It lauch from the Kennedy Space Center In Florida
• Step of a new age in commercial space travel
• SpaceX: An American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company
• Headquartered in Hawthorne, California.
• It was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk
• Launch facilities: SpaceX currently operates three orbital launch sites, at Cape Canaveral, Vandenberg Air Force Base, and Kennedy Space Center, and is under construction on a fourth in Brownsville, Texas.
• NASA: In 2006, NASA announced that SpaceX had won a NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Phase 1 contract to demonstrate cargo delivery to the ISS, with a possible contract option for crew transport.