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Promisse
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According to Helen Sharman , female cosmonauts are not expected to perform this ritual.
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Dragon flight Commercial Resupply Services 7 (CRS7) failed when the Falcon 9 rocket disintegrated 139 seconds into flight.
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Elon Musk , founder and CEO of SpaceX , designed the Dragon capsule with human spaceflight in mind. Hence safe re-entry was an inherent requirement.
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In conversation with the author, Kuipers expressed regret at not having performed a spacewalk, having qualified for it. But he was particularly proud of being the person to berth the first ever commercial spacecraft.
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O’Sullivan, J. (2016). Promisse. In: In the Footsteps of Columbus. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27562-8_20
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