millions of TV viewers marveled at the Live footage from the SpaceX space capsule “Dragon2”. There’s a dinosaur flew through the image. The was behind it.

On Saturday evening, the Falcon 9 rocket launched to ISS in the direction of. For the space company SpaceX from Elon Musk the successful Start-up was a success. Many TV viewers were surprised, however, about a scene in the Live recordings.

Cape Canaveral – for Countless TV viewers around the world* followed on Saturday night for the stunning launch of SpaceX rocket from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral into space. It is impressive to Live up to images of picture-book take-offs of the Falcon-9-rocket . Only a few minutes needed the rocket until it reached the All. Then it came to a puzzling scene in the “Dragon 2“space capsule – to see the live television.

One of the two astronauts held a stuffed animal-dinosaur high, floating then in front of the camera. It is an old aerospace Tradition of the NASA and you may also receive a message behind it to the family on earth.

SpaceX: Behind the Dino-scene in the Dragon2 space capsule

as soon As a space ship Zero-G reached the zero gravity , the flying “blind passenger”, that one has to leave the earth. It is sort of the indicator that is outside of the gravitational force of the earth. The astronauts are wearing a seat belt at this time still firmly in their seats and not hover still. The network was researched, which stuffed animal had managed this time to All.

third-party SpaceX-passenger: another plush toy-Dino was already on the ISS

it was, of all things, a stuffed animal-Dino, but it could also have been a message to the bottom. Because Astronaut Douglas G. Hurley , let the Dino fly, is married in second marriage with Karen Nyberg . The is also an astronaut and took 2013 for their son, Jack, a self-stitched dinosaur with the ISS .

+ This dinosaur took the astronaut Karen Nyberg to the ISS.©NASA

the new spaceship-Dino will make it to the International space station , there Hurley with the Falcon-9 rocket is on the way. For 54-year-old American, it is the third space Mission.

Elon Musk posted a similar photo from the Dragon2 space capsule

a Dragon test flight in March, a small cloth was-Earth. Elon Musk* self posted proud photos of the plush earth in the space capsule. Meanwhile, the billionaire of even larger goals and dreams: He wants to send people to Mars*. With its Starlink project* he but also caused criticism from astronomers. Strange light chains are seen from the earth.

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