The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday (August 27) to transport a new crew of astronauts to the orbiting laboratory to begin a half-year mission.
The Crew Dragon Endurance capsule has docked on the International Space Station (ISS).It’s 9:16 a.m. EDT (1313 GMT), as it parked itself in a port facing space on the U.S.-built Harmony module at the site after circling a wide loop around the orbital outpost. Dragon and the station were rising 261 miles above Australia at the time.
“Thank you very much,” Crew 7 Commander Jasmine Moqbely of NASA said over the radio to SpaceX Mission Control after the successful docking. “I always have to remind myself that this is not a dream.”
SpaceX’s Crew-7 Dragon capsule is seen with the nose cone open before docking with the blue Earth below in this view from the International Space Station on August 27, 2023. (Image credit: NASA TV)
The docking marks the end of a nearly 30-hour journey for the four-person capsule crew, which lifted off in the early hours of Saturday from NASA’s Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. But it’s also the beginning of something bigger, a six-month assignment for Moqbeli and her three crewmates.
