“Now it’s an important and crucial option when people flew on a new ship, and this opens a new stage in the manned program - the world space program,” Krikalyov said in a video posted on Twitter by Roscosmos.
Roscosmos Executive Director on Crewed Space Programs Sergey Krikalev address on the successful Falcon 9 carrier rocket launch with Crew Dragon crewed spacecraft pic.twitter.com/25pDIdIXLe
- ROSKOSMOS (@roscosmos) May 30, 2020He noted that previously such a ship flew only in an unmanned version.
Krikalev also added that in his opinion, the success of this mission will provide additional opportunities that will benefit the entire international program.
Earlier it became known that SpaceX and NASA launched the Falcon 9 launch vehicle with the Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station.