SpaceX Crew-3 Endurance Docked To ISS
Taken by Philip Smith on November 20, 2021 @
Manorville, NY USA
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Date Taken: 2021:11:21 18:29:09
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I imaged SpaceX Dragon Crew-3 max pass of 81° on 11-20-21 at 5:45pm EST docked to the International Space Station (ISS). The seeing was not good and the full sky had a thin layer of clouds I had to image through. SpaceX Crew-3 is the third operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, and the fourth overall crewed orbital flight of the Commercial Crew Program. The mission successfully launched on 11 November 2021 at 02:03:31 UTC to the International Space Station. My imaging configuration is an Edge HD 14′′ telescope with an Astrodon Red filter 1.25" on a ZWO ASI174MM (mono) camera and Baader Planetarium Carl Zeiss 1-1/4" 2x Barlow Lens. I thought I would share some info I read on the web. Crew Dragon capsules have been given names by their initial crews — Endeavour for the first, and Resilience for the second. On 7 October 2021, it was announced that the third capsule will be called Endurance. The name honors the SpaceX and NASA teams that endured through a pandemic, building the spacecraft and training the astronauts who flew it. The name also honors Endurance, the ship used by Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The three-masted vessel sank in 1915 after being bound in ice before reaching Antarctica. Crew German ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer was selected first for the mission in September 2020. NASA astronauts Raja Chari and Thomas Marshburn were added on 14 December 2020 to the crew. The fourth seat was left open in anticipation that a Russian cosmonaut would take the seat, marking the beginning of a barter agreement that would see NASA and Roscosmos trade seats on the Soyuz and Commercial Crew Vehicles, although in April 2021 then-acting NASA administration Steve Jurczyk said that this agreement would be unlikely to start until after Crew-3 had launched. The fourth seat was assigned to Kayla Barron in May 2021. Chari is the first rookie astronaut to command a NASA space mission since the Skylab 4 crew blasted off to the Skylab space station in 1973. Gerald Carr, who had not flown in space before, led a three-man crew on an 84-day flight on the Skylab. This is also the first spaceflight for Maurer and Barron. You can see more of my images on my FaceBook page. > https://www.facebook.com/philip.smith.5686 Kind Regards To ALL :-)
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