CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -A new American crew capsule, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, had its first flight to the ISS in 2020, and the Boeing Company’s CST-100 Starliner was scheduled to have its first crewed test flight in 2022. Prior to Crew Dragon, all astronauts used Soyuz spacecraft to reach the ISS.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first crewed flight launched on May 30, 2020, and carried astronauts Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken to the ISS. Dragon has a bell-shaped forward compartment that is pressurized and a cylindrical rear compartment called the trunk that is unpressurized.

Detailed explanation-3: -SpaceX Crew-1 (was also known as USCV-1 or simply Crew-1) was the first operational crewed flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, and the maiden flight of the Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft. It was also the second crewed orbital flight launch by the United States since that of STS-135 in July 2011.

Detailed explanation-4: -SpaceX developed its Dragon 2 spacecraft starting in 2014, with a cargo version and a crewed version. It entered service in 2019 with the Demo-1 flight, and performed its first flight with astronauts on May 30, 2020, during the Crew Dragon Demo-2 flight.