For SpaceX’s 11th crewed mission — its eighth flight for NASA — “A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying four astronauts will arrive at the International Space Station early Sunday,” reports Space.com, “and you can watch it all live online in a free livestream.”
The Crew Dragon capsule Endurance is scheduled to reach the International Space Station at 8:39 a.m. EDT (1239 GMT), where it will dock itself to a space-facing port on the outpost’s U.S.-built Harmony module.
The docking will mark the end of a nearly 30-hour journey for the capsule’s four-person crew, which launched in the wee hours of Saturday from NASA’s Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida… “SpaceX, thanks for the ride, it was awesome,” Crew-7 commander Jasmin Moghbeli of NASA said after the crew reached orbit. “Go Crew-7, awesome ride.” SpaceX’s Crew-7 mission for NASA is ferrying Moghbeli to the ISS with a truly international crew: pilot Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency; and mission specialists Konstantin Borisov of Russia’s Roscosmos agency and Satoshi Furukawa of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The quartet is the first all-international crew, with members from four different agencies and countries, to fly on the same Dragon capsule…
The Crew-7 astronauts are beginning a six-month expedition to the space station and will relieve the four astronauts of NASA’s Crew-6 mission, who are due to return shortly after Moghbeli and her crew arrive.
SpaceX has created a “follow Dragon” web page with graphics tracking the capsule’s progress to the Space Station…
