Washington, (thestates.news)
Two NASA
astronauts have entered quarantine to prepare for a historic launch to space on
a SpaceX spacecraft, according to a latest NASA release.
NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will fly on SpaceX’s Crew
Dragon spacecraft, which is scheduled to lift off on a Falcon 9 rocket on May
27, from Launch Complex 39A in Florida.
It will be NASA’s first SpaceX crewed flight to the International Space Station
For crew getting ready to launch, “flight crew health stabilization”
is a routine part of the final weeks before liftoff for all missions to the
space station, NASA said on Wednesday.
Spending the final two weeks before liftoff in quarantine helps ensure the
astronauts arrives healthy, protecting themselves and their colleagues already
on the ISS, said NASA.
Behnken and Hurley will be the first American astronauts to fly to the ISS
aboard an American spacecraft launched from American soil since the retirement
of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011.
They will meet up with the Expedition 63 crew already in
residence aboard the orbiting laboratory.(uni) (mediasaheb.com)
NASA astronauts enter routine quarantine for historic SpaceX Crew Dragon launch
