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The astronauts went to the space station.

On may 31 the spacecraft Crew Dragon, developed by the private company SpaceX, docked with the module of the American segment of the International space station, writes “Gordon”.

Arrived, the mission Crew Demo-2 Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken went to the ISS and joined the 63rd expedition – Christopher Cassidy, Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Wagner. For the first time in nine years of manned space launch carried out from the territory of the United States; for the first time in the history of commercial spacecraft with people made a docking with the orbital station.