THE CREW DRAGON HAS LAUNCHED.

It's been 9 long years since American astronauts left the planet in an American spacecraft: astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken aboard a Crew Dragon on top of a Falcon 9 rocket...





... appropriately, products of the private sector!



The Crew Dragon is a development of the Dragon 1 cargo spacecraft and is designed to be reused at least 10 times.






This is how Crew Dragon compares to other spacecraft - apart from its reusability, that is:





Lots of hard info here.


The flight to the ISS lasts 19 hours from launch. Docking tomorrow Sunday somewhere in early evening Western European time.



MFBB.