SpaceX’s manned spaceship Crew Dragon, carrying four astronauts, successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS).
SpaceX announced that the docking of the Crew Dragon and the ISS took place over Australia at around 9:16 am on the 27th local time.
Crew Dragon is SpaceX’s seventh manned transport mission to the ISS.
It succeeded in docking in about 30 hours after taking off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 3:27 am the previous day.
NASA and SpaceX’s Mission Control team closely watched the entire docking process.
After docking, the four astronauts reportedly opened the spacecraft entrance around 11 a.m. to join other astronauts currently on missions from the ISS.
In the ISS, four astronauts who were brought on the sixth mission manned spacecraft, Dragon Endeavor, on March 2 are carrying out missions at the ISS.
The four astronauts will stay on the ISS for six months and conduct more than 200 scientific research and experiments before returning to Earth early next year.
During their stay at the ISS, they try to study the human body’s response to various space flight times and investigate the physiological aspects of astronaut sleep.
In addition to American female astronaut Jasmine Mogbeli, who led the mission, the spacecraft carried astronauts from four countries: Danish Andreas Morgensen, Japanese Satoshi Furukawa, and Russian Konstantin Borisov from the European Space Agency (ESA).
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