Baby Yoda reaches space with Crew-1 astronauts onboard NASA-SpaceX flight: Watch

Popular fictional character ' Child', also kwn as 'Baby Yoda' has reached with Crew-1 mission astronauts. NASA crew has been sent to International Station (ISS) in a X flight.

NASA and X on vember 15 (local time) launched Dragon's first operational crew mission to Station and astronauts carried Star Wars plushie along with m as a 'zero-gravity indicator' to show rocket has escaped Earth's gravitational pull. 

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'Baby Yoda onboard' 

When Dragon capsule entered , Baby Yoda was seen floating inside cabin, which has astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shann Walker, and Soichi guchi aboard. During NASA's live stream on YouTube, communications specialist Leah Cheshier can be heard saying, "We've got Baby Yoda on board trying to take a seat right w," to which X engineer Jessica Anderson responded, "I think that's Victor Glover's seat, so I hope he doesn't mind."

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This is t first time when a Star Wars plush toy has been used to indicate 'zero-gravity' by a team of astronauts on a mission. During a 2015 launch, R2-D2, ar character from Star Wars series, was used as a 'zero-gravity indicator' in Russian Soyuz TMA-17M rocket. 

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Earlier, X h launched its first astronaut flight on May 30 after it sent NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to ISS and n brought m back to Earth in August. Following an extensive study of flight data, NASA certified X as first-ever commercial aero company to transport humans to and from .

Dragon capsule, including Falcon 9 rocket and associated ground systems, is first new crew craft to be NASA-certified for regular flights with astronauts since start of shuttle nearly 40 years ago. 

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