SpaceX Crew Dragon with four astronauts arrives at ISS – IT Pro – News

The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule with four astronauts on board has arrived at the International Space Station after Monday’s successful launch. The four will stay in the space station for six months.

The Crew Dragon ‘Resilience’ successfully arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday morning, more than a day after launch on Monday morning. There the four occupants had to wait about an hour until it was certain that the docking was successful and that there were no air leaks. The Crew Dragon is connected with its International Docking Adapter to the Pressurized Mating Adapter 2 of the ISS. Thereafter the crew could enter the ISS and meet the three astronauts already present.

Those three are Kate Rubins of the American NASA and Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of the Russian Roscosmos. They have been on the ISS since mid-October. They are joined by Crew-1: NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The four will spend six months in the space station for a scientific mission. The ISS is unofficially ‘full’ with seven people; the station was built for a maximum of this number of attendees.

Monday morning found the launch of the Crew Dragon with a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The trip to the ISS was the first official flight of astronauts with the Crew Dragon. The earlier flight with two astronauts was a test flight.

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