CNN —Astronauts aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule docked Sunday at the International Space Station, concluding a one-day trip to rendezvous with the orbiting laboratory after launching from Florida.
The capsule made first contact with the space station at 9:16 a.m.
The four launched aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:27 a.m.
ET Saturday, and they’ve spent the last day free-flying aboard the 13-foot-wide capsule as it slowly maneuvered toward the space station.
This mission marks the eighth flight operated by NASA and SpaceX as part of the agency’s commercial crew program, which has been ferrying astronauts to the space station since SpaceX’s first crewed mission in 2020.
Persons:
NASA’s Jasmin Moghbeli, Andreas Mogensen, Satoshi Furukawa, Konstantin Borisov, NASA’s, they’ve, Furukawa, Borisov, I’ve, ” Moghbeli, ”
Organizations:
CNN — Astronauts, SpaceX, European Space Agency, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, Roscosmos, Crew, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, NASA, ESA
Locations:
Florida, Danish, Russian