It docked nearly 30 hours after launch.
Four astronauts fromOn Sunday, SpaceX’s Dragon docked with the ISS nearly 30 hours after its Falcon 9 rocket launched the spacecraft and the crew to orbit fromSpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule Endurance docked at the space station after flying a wide loop around the orbital outpost. Dragon and the station were soaring 261 miles above Australia at the time.
During their time on the orbiting laboratory, the crew will conduct science and technology demonstrations to prepare for human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit and to benefit humanity on Earth. The mission is the seventh operational commercial crew flight for Nasa by SpaceX and the company’s eighth for the US space agency overall.
While Morgensen and Furukawa have both flown to the ISS before, Morgensen is the first European ever to pilot a SpaceX Dragon capsule.
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