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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Space X’s which spacecraft with two NASA astronauts has been successfully docked with the International Space Station?
A
Falcon 9
B
Dragon
C
Starship
D
Arabsat
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Feb. 11, 2023: International Space Station Configuration. Five spaceships are parked at the space station including the Cygnus space freighter, the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance, and Russia’s Soyuz MS-22 crew ship and the Progress 82 and 83 resupply ships.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dragon, privately developed spacecraft built by the American corporation SpaceX and the first private spacecraft to carry astronauts to orbit.

Detailed explanation-3: -This is the sixth SpaceX flight with NASA astronauts – including the Demo-2 test flight in 2020 to the space station – as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

Detailed explanation-4: -The SpaceX Crew Dragon successfully docked at the International Space Station after a 29-hour flight, bringing NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina to the orbiting laboratory.

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