Launch expected for Space X to the International Space Station

The Crew Dragon spacecraft, launched by Space X's Falcon 9 rocket, is to take 4 astronauts to the International Space Station REUTERS / Joe Skipper /

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It's a much anticipated launch.

On the night of this Sunday, November 15 to Monday, November 16, 2020, at 1:49 am Paris time, at Cape Canaveral in Florida, the company Space X will send four astronauts to the International Space Station.

After the successful demonstration flight last May, which had already caused a lot of talk, Space X must transform its test. 

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Six months ago, American astronauts took off from the United States.

A first since 2011 and the end of the space shuttle.

A success that we owe to

, the private company to which NASA has entrusted the service of the International Space Station. 

With the Crew Dragon capsule, Russian Soyuz addiction for manned flight is over.

America once again has its sovereignty in this matter.

This new mission is the first operational.

That of

was only the last qualifying flight.

With this vessel, the crew is now reduced to four, a change from the Soyuz which has only three astronauts on board.

The three Americans, Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, as well as the Japanese Soichi Noguchi, will therefore begin their six-month stay aboard the Space Station.

A routine mission, if one can thus describe a trip in space. 

Meanwhile, on the ground, Space X and NASA will prepare the next mission, scheduled for April 2020, with Frenchman

on board.  

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