Spacex’s four CREW-11 mission astronauts have reached their orbital destination.
The crew dragon capsule, called Endeavour, docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday at 2:26 AM EDT (0626 GMT), less than 15 hours after its launch on a Falcon 9 rocket of the Florida space coast.
The clabs between the two spacecraft are expected to open around 4:45 AM EDT (0845 GMT), and a welcome ceremony will take place approximately one hour after that.
The coupling occurred five years after the splash of the Creed Mission of Spacex, the demo test flight, which sent NASA Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley astronauts to the ISS for a two-month stay. Demo-2 also used Dragon Endeavour crew.
The crew-11 is commanded by NASA’s astronaut Zena Cardman. His teammates are partners of NASA Spaceflyer Mike Fincke, who is the crew pilot-11, Kimiya Yui or the Aerospace Exploration Agency of Japan (Jaxa) and Oleg Platonov or the Space Agency of Russia Russia Roscosmos. The letter are mission specialists.
This is the first space flight for Cardman and Platonov, the second for Yui and the room for Fincke. And it is the sixth trip to the final border for Endeavour, the most failed crew capsule of Spacex.
The Crew Quartet-11 joins seven people aboard the orbits Laboratory: Takuya de Jaxa Onishi, commander of the current stations Expedition 73 Mission; Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers and Jonny Kim or Nasa; And Cosmonauts Kirill Peskov, Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky.
The crew astronauts-11 will relieve Ayers, McClain, Onishi and Peskov, who arrived at the ISS in mid-March in the CREW-10 mission of Spacex. The crew quartet-10 will go home to Earth in a few days, after spending some time and sharing some knowledge with their homologues of the crew-11.
As the name implies, CREW-11 is the eleventh Operational Astronaut mission that Spacex has flown to ISS for NASA. Spacex also has eight other creed flights under its Belt-demo-2, four private efforts for the orbiting laboratory operated by the Houston Axiom Space company and three free flight missions (Inspiration4, Polaris Dawn and Fram2).
Editor’s note: This story was updated at 3:30 am et on August 2 with news or successful coupling.
