SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, carrying four astronauts, will arrive at the International Space Station early in the morning on Sunday (August 27). You can watch it all online in our free livestream.
The Crew Dragon Capsule Endurance is scheduled to arrive at the International Space Station (ISS). 8:39 am EDT (GMT 1239), Here you will be docked in the space-facing port of the outpost’s US-built Harmony module.
The docking marks the end of the nearly 30-hour journey for the four-man crew of the capsule, which launched early Saturday morning from NASA’s Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. You can watch the docking live online, courtesy of NASA TV and SpaceX. 6:45 a.m. EDT (10:45 GMT). It will appear in the upper window when it starts. Alternatively, you can watch directly from NASA TV.
“Thank you, SpaceX, for the ride. It’s been great,” said NASA Crew-7 Commander Jasmine Mogberg after the crew arrived in orbit. “Go Crew 7 is a great ride.”
SpaceX’s Crew 7 mission for NASA transports Mogberi to the ISS with a truly international crew. Konstantin Borisov, a mission expert from the Russian Roscosmos agency, and Satoshi Furukawa, from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The quartet is the first international crew to board the same Dragon capsule, with members from four different institutions and countries.
The mission will be NASA’s seventh commercial manned flight by SpaceX and the company’s eighth for the US Space Agency as a whole (including manned test flights). Including three recent private astronaut flights, this will be SpaceX’s 11th manned mission.
Crew 7 astronauts have begun a six-month expedition to the space station, rescuing four astronauts from NASA’s Crew 6 mission, which is due to return soon after Mogberg and crew arrive. I plan to.
Crew-7 is the first space flight for U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Mogberg, who became the second Iranian-American to fly in space on the Crew-7. This is also Borisov’s first flight.
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Morgensen and Furukawa have previously flown to the ISS, but Morgensen is the first European to fly SpaceX’s Dragon capsule. SpaceX’s Endurance his capsule is also a space veteran who flew Crew 3 and Crew 5 astronaut missions to the station for NASA.
NASA and SpaceX are planning a special treat for Crew-7’s arrival at the ISS on Sunday.
“We’re going to fly around the International Space Station, take some great pictures, and show everyone what a great outpost we are,” said Joel Montalbano, NASA’s space station program manager. NASA space station program manager Joel Montalbano told reporters after the interview. launch.