SpaceX capsule carrying most current astronaut crew docks with International Spaceport station
CAPE CANAVERAL: Four astronauts, 3 from NASA and one from the European Area Firm, showed up ahead of schedule at the International Spaceport Station (ISS) on Wednesday and docked their SpaceX pill, just 2 days after the last crew to leave the orbiting outpost went back to Earth.
Rendezvous of the Team Dragon capsule with the station less than 13 hours after launch of the astronauts from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, also marked among the fastest flights by Elon Musk‘s SpaceX to the ISS from liftoff to docking, NASA webcast analysts said.
The totally automated docking took place at about 7:37 p.m. EDT (1137 GMT) while the Crew Dragon pill dubbed Flexibility and the space station were flying about 260 miles (420 km) above the central Pacific Ocean, according to NASA.
The Freedom crew includes three American NASA astronauts – flight commander Kjell Lindgren, 49, objective pilot Bob Hines, 47, and objective professional Jessica Watkins, 33 – along with Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, 45, of the European Space Company (ESA).
Published at Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:01:16 +0000