FLORIDA: SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday.
As per Western media reports citing the International Space Station, the SpaceX capsule crew members would engage with the orbiting laboratory after their launch from Florida.
The @SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft docked to the station’s Harmony module at 9:16am ET today. The four #Crew7 members are now prepping for hatch opening. https://t.co/XR8weAFc9k pic.twitter.com/qh3ItKAHqc
— International Space Station (@Space_Station) August 27, 2023
Crew-7, the most nationally diverse SpaceX mission
The astronauts of the mission called Crew-7 are from four different countries making it the most nationally diverse SpaceX mission.
The astronauts include NASA’s Jasmin Moghbeli, the mission commander; Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency; Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Roscosmos and Satoshi Furukawa of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
The mission using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday. Before docking the International Space Center, the capsule spent the last day in free-flying.
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The astronauts will take control of the operations from the SpaceX Crew-6 astronauts, who have been in the space station since March.
SpaceX’s Crew-7 mission is the seventh routine mission to the ISS under Elon Musk, with the first launched in 2020. NASA’s partnership with SpaceX is part of the commercial crew program to lessen dependence on Russian rockets for astronaut transportation following the retirement of the space shuttle program in 2011.
While Boeing is another private partner for NASA, its program has faced delays and technical issues and has yet to transport any crew members.
